Ugarit, Byblos, and Crete.
Byblos, Ugarit, and Crete provide insight into the expanding new centers of commercial exchange among cities and regions of the third and second millennium.
Trading post settlements are early towns that act as trading centers. Small settlers would travel to these towns to trade furs and other goods, and purchase the supplies that they require.
East Africa began trading with other regions long before European colonization. Evidence of trade networks with nations in Arabia, along the Indian Ocean and Mediterranean Sea is found in Greek writings.
Carthage was a significant obstacle to early Rome's control of the Mediterranean region. Located in present-day Tunisia, Carthage was a powerful maritime and trading city-state that competed with Rome for dominance over trade routes and territories. The rivalry between the two powers ultimately led to the Punic Wars, a series of conflicts that significantly shaped the course of Roman expansion and its eventual supremacy in the Mediterranean.
Phoenicians.
Phoenicians
Mediterranean Sea
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It was established on a bay on the coast of today's Tunisia by the Phoenician city of Tyre as a trading post in the early 800s BCE, grew into a city and gained independence in the 600s BCE and established its own trading posts in the Western Mediterranean.
Depending on the era, Egypt, Ghana, Ethiopia, and several other nations were major trading states in early Africa.
Slaves
barter economy