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In Our Time

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The Importance of Merchant Driven Trade in the Aegean

In the Iron Age you get the spread of the Phoenicians right across the Mediterranean. They are doing it as smaller entities. It is not these enormous states that come together and organise huge donkey trains or huge ships like the Ulaburun. So the hinge is moving towards more merchant driven trade on a smaller scale.

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