Hellenistic+World+Decline+-+Agriculture+and+the+Economy

 Antigonid Macedonia -very little due to rocky land
 * Agriculture:

Ptolemaic Egypt -grain

Pergmum -domesticated peach, cherry, apricot (Green, 1990, 367)

Seleucid Asia -grew barley, dates, mustard, seaseme, wool, cress -palmtrees produced: bread, wine, vinegar, honey, grain meal · kernals replace charcoal, soaked kernels fed livestock (Shipley, 277) Economy Macedonia -timber -pitch -gold, silver mining -sea trade

Egypt -m  ined: granite, marble, semiprecious stones, gems; gold supply further south (Shipley, 194) -produce surplus of grain, export & exchange for silver, increase taxes to be paid in silver or silver coins (Davies, 82) -prohibited movement of silver outside of Egypt

 Seleucid Asia    ** Ø - Hills of North Mesopotamia produced timber, building stones, minerals -caravan trade: silk, spices (Adams, 42) The Decline of the Hellenistic World