Economy

=__Economy in Ancient Egypt__=

The Ancient Egyptians didn't travel much for trade. They stayed in their country because they were scared that they would die in a foreign country and not have a proper funeral. Like this, when the time came for them to leave for the afterlife, they wouldn't be prepared.

They did trade within Egypt though. The Ancient Egyptians did not have proper money or set prices on items. The price of something was found out through deben (copper weight of about 14. grams). A pair of shoes might be something like 2 deben where as 4 pigs would be something like 20 deben. You couldn't trade these for each other, you would have to find something of equal or very similar value.



=__Economy in Ancient Greece__=

In ancient Greece, ships were commonly used to reach other marketing places surrounding the //Mediterranean Sea//. Seeing as the Greeks had so many islands, they traveled a lot to trade. Through traveling, the Greeks were able to trade the things that they had a lot of, for things that they hardly had. The Greeks traded mostly luxury goods for example, jewlery and pottery such as vases, pots etc. They also traded food as well as olive oil and wine.

The Ancient Greeks used money. They created coins of different values. Some coins were worth more than the others like the coins we have today. The money they used was called "drachma". The Greeks earned money through their jobs. The better quality the job was, the more money the person would get. An unskilled worker would earn about half a drachma a day, someone with an average job would get about 2 drachmas a day. Someone like a doctor would get about 6 drachmas a day.



=__Comparison__=

Both Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece traded. But Ancient Greece traveled to trade, and they also used accurate money. The Ancient Egyptians just traded items for other items.


 * I think that the economy in Ancient Greece was better than the economy in Ancient Egypt.**