Economy

=**__Economy__ **= By: John Home

**Mostly all Ancient Greek men were sailors as far back as the Stone Age. They had found a lot of ways to live from sailing. One was was to fish. They would eat the fish they needed and sell the rest of the fish to a market. Another way sailors lived was from trading. They would buy items at a market and sell them for more at a different market. Other than being sailors some were soldiers. They would conquer cities and force them to pay tribute.They got a lot of money from these tasks. If you weren't a sailor or soldier, you were most-likely without a job, or a pirate. Pirates raided whatever they could find. If you were a pirate, you might also fish, trade, or even be mercenary.**

-Traded Goods
 **The Greek exports were mainly oil, wine, pots, statues, metalwork, cloth, and books. In return the Greeks would recieve many items they didn't have, like Tin from Britain, Iron from Elba, Silver from Spain, Copper from Cyprus, Gold from Turkey, and many more goods.**

**Moneychangers were people who charged a fee to trade coins for that specific city-state. When people had to trade they had to go to Moneychangers and and change their money so they could trade at the market.**

-Markets
**Each Greek city had an agora at the center of the city. An agora is mainly a marketplace and where all the activity and trading happened. There were many items for customers to buy like, meat, fish, vegetables, chees, fruit, eggs, and hens.**



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