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Well, maybe this could give you a clue. Ancient greeks made their trading through and across the Mediterranean Sea.
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the ancient greeks made money by trading food and taxes
The Greeks established colonies for trading with other city-states.
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The United State began trading with Japan around the year 1854.
The ancient Greeks.
As with any empire, the Greeks set up colonies to establish a foothold in a new land. Once they had this foothold, they would assert their influence and create new trading partners and gain more natural resources.
Rome began as a trading post
It was the Phoenicans
back then when Greeks ruled, Athens were the center of trading, knowledge and everything else. You can kind of look at it like New York nowadays
the early Greeks.