International Trade under Egyptian Control
In the fourteenth century BCE, around 3,400 years ago, commerce among the empires
of the Ancient Near East expanded, reaching unprecedented heights. Caravans
of merchants traveled between the main centers, connecting Egypt in the South
with Babylonia in the East and Hatti in the North, while merchant vessels crossed
the sea between Egypt and Cyprus, the Aegean Islands, and mainland Greece. The
most popular commodities were copper from Cyprus, gold from Egypt and
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