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title: Writing, laws and money: how strangers learned to trust each other — how Mova does on the tests · History
description: Lesson 63 of the history course of Mova's primary school: 3 of 11 tests right, exam 0 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# Writing, laws and money: how strangers learned to trust each other

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**Tests:** 3 of 11 right · **Exam:** 0 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 9 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 63 of the history course of Mova's primary school, as Mova's small model took its tests: it had read this lesson and the ones before it and learned from their exercises. Each test shows the options in the order the student saw them, its choice, the right answer, the score of every option and why it chose. The lesson itself, sentence by sentence with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/63-writing-laws-and-money-how-strangers-learned-to-trust-each-other/).

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Every question of this lesson and each of its options parsed by Mova, with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson's questions in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/63-writing-laws-and-money-how-strangers-learned-to-trust-each-other/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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Jack's mate says everyone copied the ABC from one place. Nah, bro?

- **1.** Nah, he's right, writing came only from Rome — no support
- **2.** Nah, writing was only invented around 1800 — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **3.** Yeah, true, China copied Egypt's ABC thousands of years ago — score 3
- **4.** Nah, several peoples invented writing on their own — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 63, line 1: «Jack's friend says writing was invented in one place and everyone copied the ABC. Wren's friend adds that peoples without writing had no laws, just chaos. Both…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «invent» (+2); the same thing acted on «writing» (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/63-writing-laws-and-money-how-strangers-learned-to-trust-each-other/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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«most ppl couldnt read back then right?» asks Isla. What is right?

- **1.** No, reading was banned for everyone except kings — no support
- **2.** Right, and still nobody can read today — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **3.** No, nearly everyone could read, even in the villages — no support
- **4.** Right; around 1820 only about one adult in eight could — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 51, line 15: «The Art of War, credited to Sun Tzu around the 5th century BC, is a classic about strategy, widely read today in armies and business schools.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «read» (+3); the same property (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/63-writing-laws-and-money-how-strangers-learned-to-trust-each-other/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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Omar says Hammurabi's eye for an eye was equal for all. What would the guide add?

- **1.** Hammurabi had no laws at all; the stone is just a story — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Yes, slaves and nobles had exactly the same rights in court — no support
- **3.** It was really a law about eye doctors and their fees — no support
- **4.** It was written down but not equal; the rich often paid silver — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/63-writing-laws-and-money-how-strangers-learned-to-trust-each-other/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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Jayden's teacher says money came from barter; his aunt says lowkey contested. What does she mean?

- **1.** Money came from aliens who visited Mesopotamia long ago — score 4
- **2.** Scholars really disagree; debts and gifts may be older than swapping — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** She agrees completely: everyone knows barter came first, then coins, then banks — score 4
- **4.** Barter was only invented last year, on the internet — **← Mova's choice** · score 7

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 7, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 63, line 9: «The story that people first swapped goods and then invented money is contested: scholars have found few, if any, communities that lived by swapping alone, and…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «invent» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «money» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/63-writing-laws-and-money-how-strangers-learned-to-trust-each-other/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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Priya laughs: shells as money? What makes anything work as money?

- **1.** It must have a king's face — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** People trust and accept it — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** It must be made of gold — no support
- **4.** It must be printed on paper — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/63-writing-laws-and-money-how-strangers-learned-to-trust-each-other/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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Charlie: «is money even real any more?» His dad pays by phone. What is true?

- **1.** Money keeps changing shape, but it always ran on trust — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Phones make new money from nothing every time you pay — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **3.** Only metal coins are real money; the rest is pretend — no support
- **4.** Money disappeared in 2000 and only numbers are left — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 36, line 3: «The microchip packed many tiny parts onto a small piece of silicon, which is why the phone in your pocket is millions of times more powerful than those room-si…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «phone» (+2); the same property (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/63-writing-laws-and-money-how-strangers-learned-to-trust-each-other/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · right ✓ {#t7}

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Grace reads the oldest customer complaint is about bad copper. legit or nah?

- **1.** Legit; Nanni wrote it to Ea-nasir on clay — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Nah, ancient people never complained about stuff — no support
- **3.** Legit, but it was written in 1990 as a joke — no support
- **4.** Nah, it's about a broken phone, not copper — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/63-writing-laws-and-money-how-strangers-learned-to-trust-each-other/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · right ✓ {#t8}

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What would happen at a market if every stall used different weights?

- **1.** Nothing at all, because nobody would notice — no support
- **2.** Buyers could be cheated and trust would fall — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **3.** Everything at the market would be free — no support
- **4.** Apples would grow bigger to fill the weights — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 2 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 63, line 15: «Kings and cities set standard weights and measures so buyers were not cheated; France created the metric system in the 1790s, and most of the world now uses it.», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «cheat» (+4); the same thing acted on «buyers» (+4). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-6). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/63-writing-laws-and-money-how-strangers-learned-to-trust-each-other/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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Wren's friend says peoples without writing had no laws, just chaos. What would Wren say?

- **1.** Not true; they kept their laws on early computers — **← Mova's choice** · score 10
- **2.** True, they had no leaders, so nobody made any rules — score 6
- **3.** Not true; laws were kept in memory, speeches and wampum — **✓ the right answer** · score 10
- **4.** True, laws can only exist if they are written on paper — score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 10, tied with another option at 10 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 63, line 1: «Jack's friend says writing was invented in one place and everyone copied the ABC. Wren's friend adds that peoples without writing had no laws, just chaos. Both…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «peoples» (+5); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «laws» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 10. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/63-writing-laws-and-money-how-strangers-learned-to-trust-each-other/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · right ✓ {#t10}

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In your game you get a «mint» building that stamps coins. What did a real ruler's stamp do?

- **1.** It turned the silver inside into pure gold — score 3
- **2.** It made the coin worth nothing at all — score 9
- **3.** It promised the coin's weight to traders — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 10
- **4.** It made the coin magic in the king's eyes — score 8

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 3 with score 10, against 9 for the next best. Its support: lesson 63, line 12: «A ruler's stamp on a coin promised its weight, so traders did not need to weigh metal every time.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same action «promise» (+3); the same doer «stamp» (+1); the same thing acted on «weight» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/63-writing-laws-and-money-how-strangers-learned-to-trust-each-other/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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what if no one could ever write anything down. what would we lose

- **1.** Nothing, because people's memory is always perfect anyway, so who needs it — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Records, letters and laws that outlive the people who made them — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Only maths homework, and we would all be happier — no support
- **4.** The ability to talk, since speech comes from writing — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/63-writing-laws-and-money-how-strangers-learned-to-trust-each-other/t11/)

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### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1}

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Identify the region in which writing first appeared, approximately five thousand two hundred years ago.

- **1.** The southern part of South America — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Scandinavia, among the Vikings — no support
- **3.** Mesopotamia — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** The interior of Australia — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/63-writing-laws-and-money-how-strangers-learned-to-trust-each-other/e1/)

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### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2}

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Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the laws of Hammurabi.

- **1.** They conferred identical rights upon all persons, free or enslaved — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **2.** They were preserved solely in oral form by the priests — no support
- **3.** They were inscribed publicly but did not treat all ranks equally — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** They were enacted in the nineteenth century in France — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 31, line 18: «New laws in the 1960s banned segregation, keeping Black and white people apart by law, and protected Black Americans' right to vote.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «new laws» (+2); the same thing acted on «right» (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/63-writing-laws-and-money-how-strangers-learned-to-trust-each-other/e2/)

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### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3}

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the earliest known coinage?

- **1.** It consisted of plastic cards in Mesopotamia — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** It was minted in France during the seventeen-nineties — no support
- **3.** It was minted in Lydia circa six hundred BCE — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** It was printed on paper in Rome — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/63-writing-laws-and-money-how-strangers-learned-to-trust-each-other/e3/)

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### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4}

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Ascertain the manner in which the Haudenosaunee Great Law of Peace was preserved.

- **1.** By a carved stone in Babylon — no support
- **2.** By printed books kept in Paris and London — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **3.** By memory, oratory and wampum belts — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** It was never preserved in any form — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 16, line 14: «The Byzantines kept Roman law and Greek books alive and spread Orthodox Christianity to places like Kyiv and Moscow.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «keep» (+2); the same thing acted on «roman law» (+2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/63-writing-laws-and-money-how-strangers-learned-to-trust-each-other/e4/)

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