The Business Life of Ancient Athens
The Business Life of Ancient Athens is an informative book about
different aspects of Ancient businesses and Ancient ways of dealing with money.
This book first starts out by explaining the agricultural aspects of Ancient
Athens. Agriculture was not well for Athens, so they had to trade a lot. It is
recorded as early as the 6th century BC that grain was a very big part of an
average Athenian's diet. Therefore; much grain trade was necessary because
Greece land was very bad for agricultural purposes. Athens had grown
industrially and commercially within time, and this was also a problem:
overpopulation. Also, many Spartan tribes over and over attacked Greece and
destroyed any crops that might grow in the soil. Peasants were also sent to
work at farms but they lost care in their farms and found it better to live in
the city, living off small amounts of money that came from doing state services.
During this time, many people learned ways of......
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