Trade And Travel In Ancient Greece By Mark Cartwright

Modern history would not be the same without trade and travel in Ancient Greece. Due to trade many people traveled great distances and explored. Due to the trade it boosted the economy which may have helped us in modern days. Without these two important pieces of ancient Greek Culture, the would would not be the same.

Trade in ancient Greece was one of the most important aspects of ancient Greek life. Trade was very important in ancient Greece because it helped inspire territorial expansions, population movements, and new developments in travel and items that could be sold at the marketplace. In ancient Greece there was also international trade as well. In 600 B.C trade was improved by the development of specially built merchant ships just for trade. Trade was also so fundamental that folks in ancient Greece constructed special places to trade that were called the emporia. According to “Trade in ancient Greece” by Mark Cartwright Ancient Greeks traded the following items: “Cereals, wine, olives, figs, pulses, eels, cheese, honey, meat, tools, perfumes, and fine pottery.” [Mark Cartwright]

People in ancient Greece traveled far and wide to discover new trade routes. Many stories were written about the sea back then. In “Travel in Ancient Greece” by Mark Cartwright it states the following about some stories about the sea, “In the earliest works of Greek literature in the 8th century BCE, both Homer and Hesiod describe traders, in particular, as great travelers. Works such as the Odyssey illustrated that the authors themselves had clearly traveled or at least spoken to those who had, and one might say that Odysseus' epic journey home to Ithaca was itself a celebration of the adventures inherent in travel”. Due to the amount of Trade in ancient Greece many people traveled to trade in distant lands. This is how travel was important to the ancient Greek economy. [Mark