What is the main reason why the Mesopotamians traded grain and cloth for metal and stone? Metal and stone did not spoil or tear, but grain and cloth did. Metal and stone drew better prices than grain and cloth in Mesopotamia. Grain and cloth were plentiful in the area, but metal and stone were not. Grain and cloth were lighter to carry on the ships they used to cross the seas.

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Explanation:

Mesopotamians traded grain and cloth for metal and stone because Grain and cloth were plentiful in the area, but metal and stone were not.

Thanks to the Tigris and the Euphrates, Mesopotamia was blessed with:

  • grain
  • fish
  • water and,
  • clay soil

They did not however, have metals and stones. They therefore traded the grain that they had for these metals and stones with nations that had these things and then imported them overland.

In conclusion, the Mesopotamians only traded metal and stone because they did not have it in abundance.

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