ECONOMIC SITUATION IN KANİŞ IN OF THE 2ND MİLLENNİUM B.C

Abstract

In the light of the information given by the tablets found in Kültepe Kaniş, there are small communities living around Kızılırmak in central Anatolia with a government called a kingdom (rubaum). Living conditions, social and commercial relations, economic conditions of this colony community information is obtained through written agreements and commercial documents made with Assyrian merchants who came to the region at the beginning of the 2nd millennium BC. Mutual mineral exchange in commercial relations, which is very important for the economy, and the fact that the values of the mines are very different from each other in this exchange are discussed. Mines formed the basis of the economy of these colonial cities. In addition, a precious metal called amutum was used for money value. In this study, it has been tried to see the economic structure of the Kanish people, meeting their primary needs and how they did this, by examining some tablets. In order to reach the economic structure of that period, the studies of scientists who worked on the tablets for many years and translated them into today's Turkish were used.