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Many goods were traded in the Roman Empire: grain, grapes, wine, olives, olive oil, wool, cotton, linen, dyes, papyrus, parchment, timber, , cedar wood, sheep, dogs, lions, African elephants, ostriches, marble, porphyry, granite, gold, silver, iron, steel, bronze, copper, pottery, statues, glass, jewellery, silverware, brooches, metal cups, etc.

Goods were also imported from outside the empire: From Arabia they imported spices and incense. They trade with India, via the Indian ocean and the Red Sea was on a large scale. The Indians exported their goods and goods they bought in Southeast Asia and the Romans imported copper, tin, lead, coral topaz, storax, sweet clover, flint glass, realgar, antimony, gold and silver coin, ointments, spikenard, costus, bdellium, ivory, agate, carnelian, lycium, cotton, silk and mallow cloth, yarn, pepper and other spices (may of which came from the Spice Islands in Indonesia), Indian elephants, tigers and Indian lions and Rhinos. From Ethiopia they imported ivory, rhinoceros, tortoise-shell, mahogany and obsidian stone. They imported silk from China and amber form Poland.

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