economy

=Ancient greek **economy by Cory. It was a importance to get food to greece because of the poverty. The soil in greece is very poor just to make matters worse. Since ancient times greece farm production was based on trinity:grapes,olives,and cereals. 80% of the people of ancient greece was working on farms during the classical period. Even during the stone age greeks were good sailors and thats how they transported goods. there was also many other ways and reasons to sail. Like fishing for example. they also traded. But during the early times there was also pirates who attaked fromthe side of the ship abd stole the merchindice. They also used ships to transport people to and from city states like a ferry. Lots of greeks went to war but lots of greeks. worked on the ships and farms**. =

What Ancient Greeks Traded

= First ofgreeks lived on a island. They traded grapes for wine and food. They traded grapes because thats what they had. They also traded olives or made olive oils. Olives could be used as a moistureizer to back then. Greeks also traded cereals. They traded cereals because thats what they had. They Had a few wheat farms and they mixed som ingredients and they made cereal. All of this food and stuff were transported by boat and ship. They traded to near by city states nor out of the country. = = Money =

Greek coins were primarily silver. The face of the coine represented wich city state it came from. The greek coins were rugged cus what they did was melt silver and stamp it.
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