alleryStart learning →Around the 4th millennium BC, trade records outgrew memory in which region?
AMesopotamia
BAustralia
CIceland
DAncient Rome
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. Mesopotamia
In Mesopotamia trade and administration became too complex to remember, so writing became the reliable record.
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