Trade and commerce between civilizations helped to exchange new ideas, spread languages, share new inventions and make people rich. Trade and commerce is one of the ways we are able to grow as a society and work along side other society's that do things differently than us. It is important to be cautious when sharing information but also know that we all have something to learn from one another. By exchanging ideas, new languages are being shared and from that forms new inventions. As new inventions take off, people are becoming rich.