p3ch7economics

Name: Mike Mercado

 * **Theme** || **How does this theme apply to your civilization?** ||
 * Agricultural and pastoral production || * Barel and wheat are the most common in the persians
 * Peas, lentils, mustard, garlic, onions, cucumbers, dates, apples, pomergranates, pears and apricots were added in the cereals
 * the most commen beverages in the persian empire were beer and wine ||
 * Trade and Commerce || * as agriculture grew in the persian empire, so did long-distance trade with other countries such as india and egypt
 * each country supplied persha with such items as gold, ivory, lapis, turquiose, silver, iron, copper, tin and other goods
 * trading routes such as the persian royal road and sea routes through the red sea, the persian gulf and the arabian sea made trade easier ||
 * Labor Systems || * slaves were a large part of the persian empire which were used to work on farms or usualy used in the millitary
 * there were two types of slaves:slaves that were imprisoned and sold which makes up most of the slave population and civilians who rebel against thr empire or fail to pay become slaves
 * slaves, unlie free classmen, cammot move and no choice to marry ||
 * Industrialization || * the tomb of cyrus in an example of how persians built many of their structures
 * persia did not have machinary to build their buildings so they relied on slaves to build them
 * slaves built larger-scale projects such as roads, irrigation systems, city walls and palaces ||
 * Capitalism and socialism || N/A ||