-As the Roman empire expanded, trade became a very important part of Rome. Rome became a major trading center. At the port of Puteoli on the Bay of Naples and later at the Roman port of Ostia goods were unloaded from ships that had travelled from from the far corners of the empire. Good that were traded were exotic foods, materials and crafts. All of the goods were held in large quantities in large warehouses.
Rome exported very few goods and Imported lots so they paided for all these goods with the taxes that they collected from it's provinces. Soon these taxes became too much for many people and a gap began to form between poor and rich. In about 50 b.c some of the poor people began to sell themselves as slaves or rebelling against the abuses of the wealthy.
The Roman Trade routes covered the Mediterranean and Black Sea and serveral roads. The main places they traded with were Spain, France, the Middle East and North Africa, from these places they traded beef, corn, glassware, iron, lead, leather, marble, olive oil, perfumes, purple dye, silk, silver, spices, timber, tin and wine.From Britian they got lead, woollen products and tin. In return Rome exported wine, olive oil, pottery and papyrus to Britian.
Merchants made their money buying and selling thing from foods to jewellery and perfume. To tranport things was was expensive, so only luxuries would be imported from countries.-
-How much money people made for a job
Job - Denari / month
Secretary - 15
Lecturer - 12
Messenger - 9
Haruspex (fortune teller) - 10
Legionary Soldier (Private) - 20
Praetorian (guard in Rome) - 60
Legionary Soldier (Centurion) - 300
How much money was made where
Location - Price / As
Rome - up to 32
provincial Italy - 16
Africa - 9 to 16
Asia minor - 8 to 16
Palestine - 10 to 12
Egypt (bread basket) - 7 to 9-
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