Greek Economy: How does it work? by: Jessica Almeida

The ancient Greece has a deep dynamic economy, which is in touch with agriculture, seabourne trade and handcrafts. These kind of business are the main economic activities of Its cities-states(which are cities within other cities,however ,they are independent from the place where they were in- for example having their own Act.)

Grapes, olives and cereals are the main agricultural products here, what enables the wine and olive production in the region. The cattle farming is not a well-developped activitiy, on account of the many mountain areas which are characteristic of the region, but goats and sheeps are raised.

Greece is also know for using slavery as a kind of labour, which is the base of our economy. The majority of the slaves are prisoners captured during the war, who are sold as a good to families and rural producers. Slavery has a huge importance for us because these captured people are the responsable for doing the hard works in our society. Our Greek philosopher Plato say that rejecting the work is natural to well-bred people. That exemplifies the Greek 's thought about this subject.

The handcrafts is also an important activitiy here! The people who work with that are part of a group of free workforce , which produces furnitures, weapons and amphorae (where wine and olives are kept).

The seaborne trade is easily developped on account of the many islands in region and, by the sea, Greece gets in touch with Its colonies in Minor Asia, Egypt and other cities by the coast of the Black Sea. This kind of economic relationship are extremely important to supply major Greek's necessities!