Becouse they wos loking goods that were only in Asia. For example <span>spice.</span>
I think that the best answer is Middle East: among the earliest metal tools were tools from Egypt, and also Hittites were early tool makers, some early works were also done in Iran.
Free born women in Rome were cives or citizens and they could work and be named in stories, not frequently but they were.
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Yes, she had traveled around the world promoting and giving lecture-demonstrations. From which made her self-made millionaire