Friday, November 9, 2018

Yaskul's Mighty Trade

Explain the importance of trade in the lives of people living in the ancient city of Bactra. Use evidence from the text to support your claim.

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  1. Jackie
    Trade was very important in about AD 110, lively commerce attracted merchants from east and west to the famous market of bactra. In the following, Yaskuls,the 12-year old son of a merchant, is eager to make his official trade. Yuskuls is ready to make his first trade tomorrow and he meets his grandpa who is teaching him tricks about making a mighty trade and getting home ready for tomorrow. When they start heading to the market to look over the shed grandpa stops and says “before I forget I must give you something for you to trade.”
    Then hands him a sack of brilliant blue stone from the mines up north. Grandfather says that even the egyptians prized the stone. Soon they are at the shed and he learns new tricks and is having a wonderful time. Then the next day comes around and yuskuls is ready do they head for the market, but when they entered they find out that all there goods were stolen! There were only wool rugs and sacks of salt. These are only common house good no person would want to trade here.
    “But grandpa I still have my stones that you gave me can’t I just use that?”
    “Why yes” said grandpa
    With that yuskul heads on and starts working on the stones soon he is making a necklace and is ready to head out and make a trade. Soon he comes up and he meets a 19-year old boy
    “Are you a trader?”
    “I am yukul,”. I say “my family are traders”. He introduced himself as zhang.
    Told him about how he is going to trade for the first time and about the thieves and when he heard that he said I hope you make a great first trade with those blue stones. Then yuskul runs back to his shed witch is his stand for trading then his friend zhang comes up and gives yuskul a wink and gives a handful of coins to yuskuls grandpa he smiled he knew he could do it. and says "know you can truly count yourself as a trader."

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    1. jackie
      "in this passage talk about how a friend can help you when you need it." and zhang was there to help them. also I forgot to say in the beginning that they live in bactra.

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    2. what about the traders items for sale

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  2. Sharlyn
    Some important ideas of trading in the ancient times is when they wanted to trade they had to have goods for the best prices. Also when you trade to watch out from the people. My evidence is when in the text said to watch out because that person is willing to pay more or walk away. Today these days we do not trade we pay with cash so we don't have to save the things we don't want and trade for something we want.

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  3. The reason why trade was important of the lives in ancient city is because yaskul needed money so they would trade with the Chinese fore money and the chinese wanted stuff thats why trad was important

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  4. skyler
    Trading was important because it was the only way they made money and to get money to provide for their families. The boy needed to convince the trader that the stone was the best of its kind and to buy it, the reason why he was trying to sell the stone was because his grandfather was trying to teach him how and he was there last chance. That stone was there last chance because thieves took the rest of the stones and the other goods. In the end the boy sell the stone to the trader and help his family.

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  5. yaskuls Kris

    Trade was very important because It got people drachma. Lapiz lazuli was one of the trades.It was also expensive because in the text it states ¨We agree on a high price.¨Trade is also very important because they get money from it to buy food. In all trade was very important

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    1. I need to add more details and the name of the city.

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  6. jizael

    The trade was very important to the people of the Ancient times because they need things that could help them.like they could get money for trading things really rare like lapis lazuli and other things.Also a other thing is they need to do the trads because they needed things to use at home like they could have soup or food or stuff like that.

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    1. I need to add the name of the city (Bacrta)

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  7. Michelle
    Trade was very important of the lives of the people living in a city called Bacrta It was important Beacuse If winter came early,they might not see Another carabion for months.Also,they got a chance to get a hold of items they don t have where they live.In the text,It mentions that the kushan empire was a key event for merchants traveling the silk Road.This shows that trade was a Big part of bactra Beacuse it was a key market for merchants.

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  8. Edgar
    -trade was very important in the lives of the people in Bactria. it was important because they depended on people to trade . if no one came to trade with them they got no goods or money. if you got lazuli from Minecraft you could sell it and it is worth lots of money. so trading was really important to them and it helped them.

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    1. I need to take away minecraft and I need more evidences from the text

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    Olivia
    Trade was a very important in the ancient city of Bactra. It was important because if they didn't get a good trade, they wouldn't have enough materials to survive or support themselves. In the story "Yaskul's Mighty Trade" their goods for trading were stolen and they couldn't trade with things people already probably had so Yaskul used his lapis lazuli beads he got. Eventually they got a very good trade. In the end, trading is a very important thing in peoples life.

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  10. Mia
    Trading or bartering was very important for Yaskful and his family because thats how they made money or drachms. Grandfather taught Yaskful how to trade and advice, but Yaskful wasn't to sure about it. Unfortunately, there were some thieves who stole their stones and other wealthy stuff. Luckily Yaskful meets a boy,Zhang and he buys the stone that Yaskful has around his neck He becomes rich and now he calls himself a trader.

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  11. Jocelyn
    Trade in the lives of people living in the city of Bactra was inportant. they needed to have not just basic thing but other good things. They needed to do thing because or else merchants will likely dimiss there trade. Another thing was that if you did not convince the traders that your trade was good quaility they would not give you much money. In clunclusion trade in Bactra was very Inportant.

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  12. Darryl
    Trade was very important to the people of Bactra. Let's say it's winter and they trade for things they need for let's say of blizzard. From the text, it was winter and they needed to make a good trade so they need. In the story, Yaskul needed to trade his lapis lazuli to make a good deal and he traded the necklace and he got a handful of dracoms so they can have everything they need for winter. Happy face friends.

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  13. Thanh
    Trade is very important in the life of people in Bactra. Peoples live in Bactra usually trade with the group of many different countries to get money. They sale many things they have in their city,then sale at the marketplace. Peoples in Bactra have the famous stone name's Lapis Lazuli. And they need to trade good with the right cost.

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  14. Joaquin
    The city of Bactra needed to trade and was very important since they didn't have many resources and needed to trade, many people came to Bactra to trade for lapis. Like the boy in the story who got a lot of Denari for the lapis. many Chinese loved the lapis and Bactra was famous for that colorful stone. This is why the importance of trading was part of the lives of the people of Bactra

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  15. Peter

    Explain the importance of trade in the lives of people living in the ancient city of Bacra. Trade was very important in the lives people living in the ancient city of Bacra because people depended on it for money. For example, the main characters in the story gets robbed by thieves so they have to find a way to sell something for a lot of money. For example, in the text, Yaksul's mighty trade, Yaksul and his family gets robbed so they don't have enough stuff to sell for money for essential needs. That is why trading was super important.

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  16. Jared
    trade was very important in peoples lives in Bactra because they deepened on people/consumers to come. because that was how people got money,so the most expensive item was a blue stone. and that was bactra know for, a blue stone.back in ancient bactra it was hard in the winter because many people didn't there.so people had to make a lot of money before winter because they probably need to bye food and it was also what happened to a boy named Yakul, his family was robbed and he still had some blue stone left that he had before and he had to sell it for his family and he did. and he met a friend then when he sold it his friend Zhang winked at him like you did it

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  17. Natalie
    Trading is important since a person could give something in return for an item they want and/or need. It's important in the city of Bactra's lives since they need money. Rich people would go buy and/or trade. Yaskul gives lapis lazuli to a rich person. The lapis lazuli was a blue stone and it was beautiful. It was paid a high price because of how amazing the stone was.

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  18. Eva
    Trade was very important to the lives living in Bactra. It was very important because it depended on people lives. The text states that if people would not come to trade with each other they would not be able to become a trader. This young boy named Yaskul needed some money for his family so his grandfather helped him to trade.

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  19. Trade was very important in the city of Bactra because some people needed tools to survive, for example a boy the main character was called Yaskul he was going to become a trader

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  20. Kate
    Trade was very important in Bactra, because trade helps make money for the people. Yaskuls was so happy to go and be a trader, but was still so worried he found out that thieves had came and stole his lazuli stones. This put more stress on his shoulders,and they were counting on him with his lazuli beads. In the text it states

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  21. michelle In the story Roman diary it gives me information about what life was like for people living in ancient rome for example,I think that the people living there were not very happy about it.it also depended where they lived.in the text it says that Liona is sad at being separated from Apollo. They got seperated because lionas family sailed to egypt and their ship got attacked by pirates.then liona parents got killed,and liona and her younger brother Apollo are taken to Rome where they are sold as slaves. They were not happy about it.Apollo said he kind of liked it because the work wasn't that hard,and they gave him enough food to eat.then apollo also said that he had made friends with the house dogs,he said they are huge and they are black,it was a guard dog. They one day in november they were free,they treated liona better.she also was gonna miss the tasks she hated the most but she is still studying and looking after lydia.then she said that the ancient rome has become her home and her family.over all I think that some people went through rough time at ancient rome but I think other people liked it.

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  22. Trade is very important for everyone
    and a main source for money

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  24. crap i can not remember this story lol

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