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This guide explores essential vocabulary related to carpentry, trade, and marketplace interactions. Discover the roles of a carpenter, who builds and repairs wooden items, and a carpetmaker, who creates beautiful rugs and carpets. Learn about commercial concepts like merchants who buy and sell goods, and the importance of knowledge in these transactions. We also touch on terms like barter and exchange, as well as valuable items and the wandering nature of some traders. Enhance your understanding of these fundamental economic and craftsmanship terms.
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Vocabulary Words • carpenter – someone whose work is building and repairing things made of wood • carpetmaker – a person who makes carpets and rugs for floors • knowledge – what you know • marketplace – a place where people meet to buy and sell things
Vocabulary Words • merchant – someone who buys and sells goods for a living • plenty – a full supply • straying – wandering • thread – a thin string made of strands of cotton, silk, wool, or nylon, spun and twisted together
Other Words to Know • stunned – thoroughly shocked or confused • wanderer – someone who travels aimlessly from place to place • barter – to trade by exchanging one kind of goods for other goods without using money • exchange – to give something to someone in return for something else; trade • precious – having great value • (Next Slide)