what did the pheonicians trade with?
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Everyone!\n\nSince their written language was based on representing the sounds of words, regardless of the language spoken, it allowed them to quickly record the speech/meaning of words in other countries.\n\nThe page I provide whose URL I am providing should meet your hunger for any in-depth knowledge.  The countries it lists as the ones Phoenicians' traded with are:\n\nLebanon\nEgypt\nBritain\nSpain\nCypress\nMesopotamia\nAfrican coastal countries\n\nThey had cities that were colonies in many of these countries, as well as Tunisia and Sardinia.\n\nWhat they traded with was what they got from other, distant peoples.  Since these products by the very nature of their remote origin were rare - they were economically valuable.  Thus, they could be "expensive".\n\nThat allowed the traders to give less goods and get more in return. The extra capital received by them in these transactions could cover their expenses from:  travel, labor, ships, caravans, guards, robbers, tolls, negotiating, communicating, accounting/records-keeping, learning languages, etc.\n\nThe demands of mastering/employing all these skills probably forced the traders to be pretty smart.\n\nLater they got conquered by a succession of countries in the region (Iran, Greece, Macedonia).
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Yup, you got it, homey! \n\nAnd those same conquistadores and their ilk circumnavigated the globe and hit the Philippines, too! Same-o, same-o. \n\nThus, in the process, the Manila-Acapulco Galleon trade began as they sacked, raped and pillaged all the natural resources of these countries FIVE CENTURIES AGO[!] and they brought back the treasures to Europe and Rome.\n\nBut, as an aside, it never ceases to amaze me how some of their 'faithful' UP TO NOW continue to be IN DENIAL and keep on protecting all the atrocities perpetrated by the Mother Church since the start of the Crusades. They don't realize that the Church's own HISTORY has nothing to do with FAITH at all!\n\nYet somehow they prefer to remain in darkness... until they open their eyes and begin to see.\n\nPeace be with you!
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Greed for the Bulgar's, they expected to profit from being on the winning side.  Survival for the Ottomans, they wanted to hold their empire together. They had both been hurt in earlier wars and were looking to change their luck.
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Silk was carried because it was so valuable, and hard to trade. It was a valuable product. The "Silk Road" was just a name.
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Many things. Animals from exotic lands, rare foods, gold, precious gifts  (ivory, furs, artistic creations), relics (items owned by or body parts of Saints), land, among other things.
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mainly to "help" with the cash crops the colonist were growing, such as tobacco, sugar, cotton and any other crop they were into.  eventually this also would include trade work (carpentry, smithing etc), as well as house work.
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Venice is made up of low-lying islands. To get to the mainland, they had to be good at making and using boats. So I guess fishing came easy to them (they probably had to fish since there isn't alot of agriculture on the islands)
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portuguese were big traders in asia.  perhaps it comes from them.
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Usually when meeting with companies from middle earth, I find it useful to observe their customs very closely.  In one negotiation with a mining company, it was obvious that one of my colleagues wasn't getting along with his counterpart, the CFO of the mining company.\n\nAs the ritual in this part of the world involved a choice of either playing polo with the head of an underling  or wrestling in an outfit that looked like a cross between a thong and a diaper, I insisted that my CFO take the latter option (wanting to get pictures to use against him later).\n\nIt turned ou to be a great success.  Although he suffered a severe wedgie, the CFO gained respect and we continued the negotiations.  Remember, when in Rome, do as the Vandals do! (Remember, the Vandals took over, not just blended in).
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They were from different confrences not only one
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Chinese gold coins \nred things \ndragons
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Which side are you talking about?\n\nThe attackers could have eaten fish from the sea, olives from the trees, grapes, they could have hunted for wild boar.\n\nThe Trojans trapped inside Troy would have resorted to rations of food.\n\nConsidering Troy is in what is now known as Turkey - why don't you research that?\n\nSurely in all the legends and poems there is some reference to what was eaten?
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It goes back to the Macabees.  I'm not too clear which is which, but I think that the pharisees were with the last of the Macabees.\nYou have it in your Catholic Bible - 1st and 2nd Macabees - fascinating  story.
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"Punici" was the Roman word for Phoenicians.  Phoenicia was the mother country of Carthage, with which Rome fought these Punic Wars.
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what are you trying to say? some did want them cause they protected the trading ships and defended them against the French and the Natives. But they did tax them and force other stuff on them.
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What about them?\nThey existed.  Usually they were paid in goods rather than coinage (which didn't exist for much of early Mesopotamian history).  So, depending on income, land tenure, etc., people paid a certain number of livestock and/or grain or equivalent in other goods to the central authorities.\nAnd, as one might expect, people cheated or tried to get out of paying taxes.\n\nTaxes are usually considered as separate from tribute.  Tribute was payed by conquered territories or by those territories that didn't wish to be conquered in exchange for, bluntly, the Mesopotamian great power of the moment (Akkadians, Assyrians, Babylonians) not to come rip down their city walls, run off with the women and children, and kill the men in horrible and novel ways.
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Originally was the conduit of trade between Eastern Europe (Ottoman Empire of Turkey) and China and what is now SE Asian countries.