The weakness in the Periplus of the Erythraean sea document
is that it is anonymous. However,
there are not many documents like it so it is what we have to work with. I am thinking that the information in
this document came for a few different people because it seems a little
unlikely that one person went to all these different places and traded with all
these different items. In these
documents we also see the start of a belief in a God. Which I personally think is a bit more believable than
believing in Ares, Zeus and Poseidon.
I think the system for trading with gold that they describe is actually
fairly smart considering they spoke different languages.
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