Which ancient civilization invented the first known retail inventory management system using clay tablets called 'bullae' to track merchandise quantities?

Before modern shopping malls and e-commerce, ancient civilizations developed sophisticated retail systems that influenced commerce for millennia. From Mesopotamian bazaars to Roman shopping complexes, these early retail innovations shaped how goods were marketed, sold, and distributed. Test your knowledge about the retail analytics and inventory management techniques that helped ancient merchants thrive in the marketplaces of antiquity!

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Ancient Egypt, where scribes recorded inventory on papyrus scrolls stored in temple archives
Mesopotamia, where Sumerian merchants used these hollow clay envelopes containing tokens representing goods
Ancient Greece, where the agora marketplaces used colored pottery shards to represent different product categories
Indus Valley Civilization, where standardized weights and seals were used to track merchant inventory