These ancient weights helped create Europe’s first free market more than 3000 years ago

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A new study suggests that Mesopotamian merchants established a standardized system of weights that later spread across Europe, enabling trade across the continent. The advance effectively formed the first known common Eurasian market more than 3000 years ago.



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These ancient weights helped create Europe’s first free market more than 3000 years ago
Individual merchants likely enforced the standard, from Gr