Re: [tied] Re: All of creation in Six and Seven

At 5:37:49 AM on Saturday, November 22, 2003, tgpedersen wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
> <BMScott@...> wrote:

>> At 6:11:59 on Friday, 21 November 2003, tgpedersen wrote:

>>> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Glen Gordon"
>>> <glengordon01@...> wrote:

>>>> There's also little motivation for any IE speaker to
>>>> travel so far when they can simply trade with the
>>>> people around them. It's cheaper, it's easier and you
>>>> don't get killed in storms at sea that way.

>>> People on boats have stuff on board you can't get from
>>> your neighbor. Why don't you go down to the harbour in
>>> Vancouver and tell them to stop moving those containers
>>> on and off ships, since you can get everything easier,
>>> cheaper and safer in the USA and Mexico?

>> Why don't you learn something about how ancient
>> long-distance trade actually worked?

> They didn't put stuff on board ships? Pray tell.

Everything that I've read indicates that goods moving long
distances were typically passed along from hand to hand over
interlocking local or perhaps regional trade networks. Some
of this short-distance trade of course went by water. So
what? It hasn't much to do with international trade in
Vancouver harbor.

Brian