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Soldiers travelled to other Greek city-states on big, powerful warships called . Each trireme carried around 200 men and around 170 sailors were needed to row the ship. During battles, soldiers fired arrows at enemy ships and used the wooden, bronze- tipped ram at the front of their trireme to attack.
Ancient Greece was made up of lots of city-states and people often travelled between them by boat, trading goods like wine, olives, figs, eels, cheese, honey, tools, pottery and meat. They also traded goods with other countries in the Mediterranean. They sold pottery, wine, oil and metalwork, and
in return they bought wheat, grain, spices, glass, metals and a type of paper called .
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