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The section entitled “A Thriving Trade Center” which contributed to the author’s depiction of Pompeii is the one qouted below:
"<em>The town was one of the more important ports on the Bay of Naples and the surrounding settlements would have sent their produce to Pompeii for transportation across the Roman Empire. Goods such as olives, olive oil, wine, wool, fish sauce, salt, walnuts, figs, almonds, cherries, apricots, onions, cabbages, and wheat were exported, and imports included exotic fruit, spices, giant clams, silk, sandal wood, wild animals for the arena, and slaves to man the thriving agricultural industry. We know that the diet of Pompeians also included beef, pork, birds, fish, oysters, crustaceans, snails, lemons, figs, lettuce, artichokes, beans, and peas.</em>"
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