9 sentences with “traded”

Greek merchants traded with everyone from the Celts of Western Europe to the Egyptians, Lydians and Babylonians.

To the north, beyond Mesopotamia itself (the land between the rivers), a rival state known as Assyria traded and fought against Kassite-controlled Babylon.

The Mycenaeans were extremely warlike and attacked each other, their neighbours and the people they also traded with whenever they had the opportunity to plunder.

Ferdinand II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, traded palace intrigues for scientific research. In 1654 he invented the first sealed thermometer, the predecessor of today's thermometer.

These dynasties fought and traded with each other for some 300 years before being conquered by the Romans (the rise of Rome was set against the backdrop of the Hellenistic kingdoms).

While almost all other eastern Mediterranean civilisations were land-based empires, though they traded and travelled by waterways, the Greek civilisations were closely tied to the sea itself.

The Minoans actively traded with their neighbours and developed their own systems of bureaucracy and writing. They used a form of writing that historians call "Linear A" and which has never been deciphered.

Egypt traded with the kingdom of Nubia, but also suffered from the incursions of the warring Nubian kingdoms... One of the key political posts in Egypt was the Guardian of the Southern Gate, a military governor who tried to protect trade from these attacks.

The Greeks traded with all their neighbours and knew perfectly well that the Persians and the Egyptians and the Phoenicians, among others, were not their inferiors in learning, art or political organisation, but the fact remains that they were not Greeks either.