Roman Trade Simulation

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The Plaza of the Corporations

One important source of income this semester for your Roman municipal aristocrat will be imaginary money that you make from producing, shipping and selling goods in a variety of markets. 

The following are a list of options that you have for participation in this simulation:

·    Purchase farms and other production facilities and sell the goods you produce to the local market

·         Purchase goods from a local market and ship them according to a trade contract to a distant market to make a profit

·         A combination of the previous two: instead of buying the product from an exporter, you can produce the goods yourself and sell them to another market according to a trade contract

The following are the kinds of things you can buy to create your trade empire.  Everything costs money (the class imaginary currency) and trade credits.  Trade credits will accumulate slowly over time (you will start with 10 however); everyone will have the same number of total trade credits.      

·         Production facility (farms, quarries, mines, Vineyards, etc): variable cost based on the type of facility and its location + 4 trade credits

·         Trade company (required in each city with which you have a trade contract): 1000 denarii + 1 trade credit

·         Trade contract (an agreement to supply a particular type of product to a town in a specified amount and at a specified price): variable cost based on the type of goods + 1 trade credit

The following is a list of goods that can be produced and sold:

·         Copper

·         Garum

·         Grain

·         Iron

·         Lead

·         Marble

·         Oil

·         Tin

·         Wine

List of pages in this section of the website:
The map of ports displays all of the ports with which you can do business.  The sale prices page lists the prices that you would receive for good produced at a production facility and sold to the local market rather than to a distant market via a trade route.  The purchase prices page shows the purchase price for goods in their local markets if you wish to purchase goods locally to supply a trade contract rather than produce your own at a production facility.  The production facilities page lists all of the production facilities that are available along with details on their production, overhead, and location.  The trade contracts page does something similar for the trade contracts and shows the towns that are looking for each type of product and the price they are willing to pay.  This page also has some of the details on the calculations used in the simulation and can be very helpful for you to maximize your profit.