Market

The Bronze Age market is the crucible where human commerce first took organised form. In the walled cities of Mesopotamia and along Phoenician harbours, merchants, artisans, and farmers converged at designated open spaces to exchange grain, copper, dyed cloth, and painted pottery under rules enforced by temple scribes and city officials. Fixed weights and measures replaced improvised barter, and the first price lists were inscribed on clay tablets. Surplus production found buyers; rare imported goods — Baltic amber, Egyptian lapis lazuli — filtered down through this hub from trade routes thousands of kilometres long. In the game the market generates gold income from trade transactions and slightly increases the output of adjacent resource buildings. Build it centrally where workers converge, and it will quietly compound your economic advantage through every age transition.