PLUS250 - Egypt

Plus250 for trade and Trade is believed to have taken place throughout much of recorded human history. There is evidence of the exchange of obsidian and flint during the stone age. Materials used for creating jewelry were traded with Egypt since 3000 BC. Long-range trade routes first appeared in the 3rd millennium BC, when in Mesopotamia traded with the civilization of the Indus Valley. The Phoenicians were noted sea traders, across the Mediterranean Sea, and as far north as Britain for sources of tin to manufacture bronze. For this purpose they established trade colonies the Greeks called. Trading is important to the global economy From the beginning of Greek