Which ancient civilization first implemented a standardized 'royal pricing strategy' where merchants were required to maintain fixed prices for essential goods across the entire empire?

Before modern economics textbooks and digital marketplaces, ancient civilizations developed sophisticated pricing strategies that helped build empires and facilitate trade across vast territories. These early commercial innovations laid the foundation for many pricing concepts we still use today. Test your knowledge about how the ancients determined the value of goods and services in the earliest global marketplaces!

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Ancient Persians under Darius I, who established imperial price controls to maintain stability across their vast territory
Roman Empire under Augustus, who created the 'Pax Romana Price Edict' setting maximum prices for goods
Ancient Egyptians during the New Kingdom, who used pharaonic decrees to control grain prices
Han Dynasty China, where Emperor Wu implemented the 'Celestial Price Mandate' for salt, iron and grain