Ancient Egyptian Trading

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lapis lazuli

Ancient Egyptians were one of the best traders on Earth of their time,  it was where everyone came to trade their goods and valuables. The Egyptians would sail along the Nile looking for people to trade with and sometimes would even travel across the deserts to trade. Egyptians would trade things such as gold, papyrus, linen and grain and occasionally, they even traded decorative artefacts.

In exchange for these goods Egyptians they would receive items such as cedar wood from Lebanon; ebony and ivory from Africa; incense, myrrh and oils from Punt; lapis lazuli from Afghanistan; gold from Nubia, and the important metals of copper and iron from their best allies. Trade was also used in encouraging friendship between civilisations. Trading affected everyone no matter if you were rich or poor because in Egypt so many different kinds of resources were traded. Poor people needed food which they can buy for a price they can pay for, whereas Artisans used ebony, linen, iron, and copper for their crafts. Scribes traded for better food, such as meat, beer, and fish. They also used the leather traded from other places to be made into their carrying bags by artisans. Priests bought linen to have it made into the clothes. Government officials and the Pharaohs used luxury items such as copper and incense.