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persian trade routes,african trade routes,ocean trade routes,mediterranean trade routes,and silk roads.
Mainly, silk, gold, and salt was traded, along with other less popular items like Ivory, pottery, spices, and obviously camels (not the cigarette kind) :)
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Throughout the Mediterranean Sea.
Well, from reading stories from that period and the Bible, there were trade routes all along the Mediterranean where some merchants would transport goods by ship. There was the Silk Road in Asia. Most things were bought with gold and silver and trade of items and services was big. Slaves were traded too and many were white.
Mycenaean trade routes crossed the Aegean Sea, connecting mainland Greece with other regions in the eastern Mediterranean such as Cyprus, Egypt, and the Levant. They also traded with the Black Sea region through the Bosporus Strait.
The silk Road...
The colonies, established around the Mediterranean and Black Seas, were independent city-states and each had to make it own living, They traded with their mother cities, and locally.
Gold, salt, ivory, iron.
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