[SunkenCiv]

Etruscan transport amphora

Credit : N. Johansson

[Flick Lives]

This outlook has contributed to an imbalance and a distorted picture of the role of the indigenous population – the people that Greek historian Thukydides called the Elymians...

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Probably Phoenicians. They’re all ancient Phoenicians.

[colorado tanker]

Of course they were traders. Sicily lies athwart so many trade routes. One reason they’ve been conquered so many times.

[monkeyshine]

If civilization was born somewhere between the Tigris and Euphrates then there are very few truly indigenous people anywhere on earth. Maybe none at all.

[Yo-Yo]

I bet a lot of jars of olive oil just happened to fall off the oxcart…

[glorgau]

As traders, the Sicilians were the originators of the concept “an offer you can’t refuse”

[blueunicorn6]

Didn’t much care for the lemonade there. Too much pulp.

[Still Thinking]

The indigenous population of ancient Sicily were active traders

Dave Ramsey says buy and hold.