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AP World History 3.1 Technological and Environmental Transformations, to c. 600 B.C.E. Artifacts reveal that the main two goods exported by the early ancient Greeks were...what?
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here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by the Trojan War.
- 00:07
which was won by some guys who were basically really good at playing hide [title page]
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and seek. artifacts revealed at the main two goods exported by the early ancient
- 00:17
Greeks were what? [mumbling ]well
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although we do have written accounts of life in ancient Greece such as Homer's
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The Iliad, most of our knowledge of their trade practices come through the
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discovery of archaeological artifacts. and from the diary of some guy named Privyssyeus.
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we totally disregarded that keep out warning on the cover. okay
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let's look at each possible entry see what's shakin. while linen cloth and dyes
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were in high demand in Greece, those items were mostly imported due to low [man smiles sitting behind a stack of towels and a plate of dye]
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supply of materials and manufacturing capabilities. imported but not
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important. not for us anyway so we get rid of a. how that option b? well when it
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came to raising food such as wheat and cattle demand also outstripped supply.
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wheat doesn't grow well in Greece's climate and rocky soil and there isn't a
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lot of grassland available for grazing. rules which led to those commodities
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being largely imported as well. next up is d bronze weapon and tools well Greeks
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use them Greeks love them but Greeks didn't make. them and for the most part.
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again natural resource wise bronze wasn't exactly growing on trees in the
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Greek homeland. huh? that leaves us with option C olive oil and wine. yeah baby.
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though it was hard to raise cotton wheat and cattle in Greece but grapes and
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olives totally grow well there. also the ancient Greeks were great pottery
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makers and pots are perfect containers for exporting olive oil and wine to [clay pot pictured]
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their neighbors. many Greek shipwrecks containing thousands of pottery
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containers known as amphora have been discovered with some of the olive oil
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and wine still in them proving they were being exported to other countries. also
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many shipwrecks from neighboring countries have been discovered with
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empty amphora indicating they were heading back to Greece.
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Apparently these guys had unlimited refills. [Jack sparrow stands on a beach]
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