With defined roles, trade cards, and built-in writing prompts, this simulation keeps students engaged while encouraging strategic thinking, collaboration, and evidence-based reasoning. Students take on the roles of traders, scribes, economists, emissaries, and cultural advisors from Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus Valley, and Ancient China. Each team receives a Marketplace Briefing outlining their civilization’s needs, resources, and cultural values. As students travel between booths in a classro