Economics+Part+2

Ancient Rome- Economics Part2

= Trade  =

1. Choose 5 products from the list above

· Marble  · Glass   · Slaves   · Wild Animals   · Grains

**__2. Look at the map(in folder). For each product find put where it came from (use the modern name for each country.__**

My five product were Marble, Glass, slaves, wild animals and grains. Each product origionated from a different place.

**__Glass:__** Natrual glass has been around since the beginning of time. It was formed by rocks, sand and volcanic rock, melted together, by lightning strikes or volcanic eruptions. Glass was first discovered by the Romans in the area of Syria, around 5000 BC. After glass was discovered the Romans, quickly developed a way to create man made glass for buildings and other purposes.

**__ Slaves __** : Slaves where first taken, sold and used in the Goths and Hibernia. Slaves were used to wait around on rich citizens or royal __**Wild animals**__: Wild animals started to be captured from the Goths and Numidia. Wild animals were used to eat, fight against gladiators in the colosseum and to be sold in the trade. If the wild animals were sold in the trade they were usually killed for their fur, skin or to make leather.

**__ Grains: __** Grains Origanated from many different places around the roman empires area. They grew in Cyrene, Numidia, Mauretania, Gual, Lonidum and Illyricum. Grains were used to eat, but these areas were very important to the Roman trade and processing shipment to Rome.

**__ Oil: __** Numdia, Africa, Egypt, Alexandria, Cyprus, Crete, Pergamum, Corninth and Rome, were the first places where oil was first discovered.

**__3. Choose another product from the list.__** · Marble **__4. Look at the map. If you lived in the city of Rome, how would that product reach the market near your house? Which method of transport would be used?__**

The transportation that would have been used in ancient Rome(to transport grains from the crops, to markets), would have been strong animals, pulling carts. Strong animals can hold strong loads and transport heavy loads in less trips. In later years motor vehicles would have been used to get large amount of this product to markets. **__5. When bringing this product to you, what challenges would the trader face? (consider pirates, landscape, robbers, navigation technology such as compasses, lighthouses, distances, size of containers, currency, change of people in power__)**

This would be a very unpleasant trip to transport these products. The marble would be the hardest to transport. The animals would get very tiered from carrying it because it’s so heavy and it would be a very long trip and the terra is very uneven and hilly, so it would be hard to travel across. The weather would also affect their energy levels. The weather stays around 35 degrees all year round so it would get fairly hot travelling up hills. On the way there would also be thieves, (because marble, is the most expensive rock), and thieves would try to steal it to sell, so they can earn more money for themselves. ** 6. __ Choose one of the challenges faced by your trader. Explain how it affected the trade of your product. __** __ Thieves trying to steal marble on the journey __ This would affect the marble because it could be damaged while it was trying to be taken. Because marble is a very expensive rock that is used in fancy buildings, if it is scratched the buyer probably won’t purchase it anymore, which means it’s an inconvenience to the seller because, they have to buy the marble in the first place and transport it over to the market.

**7. __How did the trader (or the Roman__** __**empire) overcome the challenges so you could buy that product?**__ The Trader would have tried to take shorter, and more uncommon routes. This would avoid robbers and even might be better terra, to travel on. If he travelled in between mountains the weather would be cooler, and it wouldn’t make the journey as draining. =**__B Grade extension__**=

The people that would be affected the most by these problems would be the trader and the buyer, because the marble would be getting damaged the buyer would cancel the order, which means that the trader had to travel across hard conditions for nothing. Also, the trader would have either worked to make the rock the right size, or source the marble, which means they would have wasted their hard earned money (which was hard to earn). Also the buyer would be at an inconvienience because they would have to hold their constuction off, to wait for another order of marble.

=__A Grade extension__= No this problem does not occur today. The science and technology has improved dramatically, so these days, we now have equipment that keeps the marble still in the motor vehicles (aswell as the protective padding around it), so it does not get damaged on the way to it's destination. Also there are no theives trying to steal the marble beacuse it is delivered in large amounts and is too heavy to lift. Also, there is locks on the truck doors, so that it cant open unless there is a key to open it. We also have motor vehicles to transport the marble so there is no change over, and there is no animals in any of the process (which makes it easier for everyone). The economy is not effected by any of this and we use marble for a lot of different purposes these days.

This would have a minor impact __ Bibliography: sources used __ []  []   []   [|http://www.roman-colosseum.info/colosseum/wild-animals-at-the-colosseum.htm]   []   []