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Some of the goods sold at the market were transported from other areas of China on camels in caravans along the , which was actually made up of many different roads running across Central Asia from Northwest China.
During the Ming dynasty, people paid in coins and paper money. For bigger purchases, they might have used silver. To work out payments, people used an
, which was a kind of very early calculator with wooden beads on thin wooden rails.
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• Tom
• Someone using an abacus
• A woman carrying a melon on her head
• A child chasing a dog
• Digby the cat
• A food seller playing
a pellet-drum
• Someone who has dropped their noodles