Modern commerce is a huge, complex, and global system that moves money, goods and services around the world. But commerce wasn’t always big, and it didn’t always involve money.

Commerce began as a simple barter system. To understand how it worked, grab your animal skin overalls and stone tools, and let’s head back – way back, to the days of the cave dwellers. What was commerce like back when there was no such thing as money?

Lesson Two Topic

  • The history of commerce
  • Connecting barter to modern commerce
  • The deficiencies of barter
  • Negotiation skills
  • Exploring MBTI personality types

Lesson Two Objectives

  1. Connect the principles of barter to modern commerce
  2. List four ways that barter impedes the growth of commerce
  3. Assess their knowledge of negotiating skills and strategies
  4. Identify their personality strengths and weaknesses with MBTI

Classroom Instructional Slides

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Links to Instructional Resources

Intro to the Myers-Briggs Personality Test (5:23 minute video)

Myers-Briggs and Productivity (6:02 minute video)