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Trade routes and merchant ships

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05-15-2003, 03:22 AM

The first book I pulled out is "The Archaeology of the Roman Economy" by Kevin Greene, who talks about long distance shipping, such as the corn fleet from Egypt to Rome, but not much about sailing into the Atlantic. He mentions that Pliny says the trip from Ostia to Gibralter took nine days, so it was a destination, but he does not say much else. Gaul has a lot of rivers in it, so it was possible to ship much across Gaul by boat, apparently. Edited by: <A HREF=http://pub27.ezboard.com/bromancivtalk.showUserPublicProfile?gid=richsc>Richsc</A> at: 5/15/03 8:55:06 pm

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Trade routes and merchant ships - by Anonymous - 05-14-2003, 01:28 PM

reference - by JRSCline - 05-14-2003, 10:51 PM

Re: Trade routes and merchant ships - by richard - 05-15-2003, 03:22 AM

Re: Trade routes and merchant ships - by rekirts - 05-15-2003, 09:19 AM

re:Trade routes and merchant ships - by Anonymous - 05-16-2003, 05:54 AM

Re: re:Trade routes and merchant ships - by richard - 05-16-2003, 04:39 PM

Re:Trade routes and merchant ships - by Anonymous - 05-18-2003, 01:34 PM

barges - by JRSCline - 05-18-2003, 10:47 PM