Economy
Since ancient Greece was close the Mediterranean Sea, Greek sailors would travel by boat to trade. Sailing was one of the main transports. To travel inland Greeks would use donkeys to carry their trade further in Greece. Carts were also used but only the rich, upper class Greeks, could afford them. Not a lot of the Greeks used them though because the carts only worked when the roads were good enough. Jobs like farmers, architects, sculptors, clay potters, and metal smiths were important too. Farmers grew wheat, barely, olives and grapes in the farms. They also took care of the pigs, chickens, sheep and goats. Oxen and mules were also used as working animals on the farms. Architects were very important because they were the Greeks that built the houses, and the temples and monuments. The main resource that they would use to build would be stone, marble, wood and terracotta clay. Clay potters job was to create and piece of art with clay such as vases. On the vase they would paint myths and legends. These beautiful pieces of clay were used for story telling, decorating houses and helping us now find out what the Greeks believed in. Sculptors, closely related to the potters, worked on created the most famous sculptures we know today. These sculpture were usually formed into the gods and goddesses. Metal smiths job was to create the metal weapons, metal statues and metal jewelry. But they had to mine for their own metals such as gold, copper and iron. Using the water they would trade with other cities of Greece such as Sparta and Mt. Olympus. Later on the Greeks started using coins because it was a simpler way of trade. The coins were the Drachmae and the Oboloi. The Drachmae has more value than the Oboloi. Examples of when coins were used was: 1 loaf of bread= 1 Obol, and 1 lamp=8 Drahmae.