Imaginative Worlds: Greek Trade Ships

Greece is a mountainous land with coast on three sides and many nearby islands. Greece’s  soil produced grapes and olives, but not much wheat, so trade was historically essential. Early Greek city states connected and competed by sea. Greek merchants carried wine, olive oil and beautiful pottery to exchange for wheat, spices, papyrus and shipbuilding materials. As the Greeks traveled they built trade colonies and temples and their myths absorbed new ideas and chapters of epic adventures..
Construct a Greek Trade ship along with crew and cargo. Learn the basics of trade from the land that gave us the word for economics which explains the necessity of trade.