Economy

By, chs1connor
@http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/engen.greece

===Before 600B.C. there was no money system in Greece so they bartered to get what they needed. Around 500 B.C each city-state started making their own coins. Merchants usually only accepted coins minted in their city-state. Athens had one of the most common coins the drachma. Usually this coin could be used in most city-states and didn't have to be exchanged for local coins. === ===Goods: Greece had to import most of their goods and food because their soil was not very fertile. The only thing the Greeks could grow was grapes for wine and olives for olive oil. They used ships like the one below to take wine and olive oil to trade harbors. They would sell their goods and buy the goods that they needed. They then would load the goods on to the ships and take them back home.===

Some of the jobs for men were:
It was recommended that the occupation of a man was that of his father.
 * Actor
 * Carpenter
 * Farmer
 * Doctor
 * Mariner
 * Mason
 * Potter
 * Warrior