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( Trading post)
A trading post is a place where the trading of goods takes place. The preferred travel route to a trading post, or between trading posts, is known as a trade route. Trading posts were also places for people to meet and exchange the news of the world, or simply the news from their home country (many of the world's trading posts were places people loved to emigrate to) in a time when not even newspapers existed. Trading posts in general were of great importance to the history of currency. Almost right at the start of trading post history, the need occurs to have something as a payment medium. Soon trade-tokens and eventually coins were produced from precious metals like gold, silver and copper for the use of buying and selling goods instead of simply exchanging them. After the introduction of money, the first banks occurred in Genoa and Venice almost immediately. European colonialism traces its roots to ancient Carthage. Originally a trading settlement of Phoenician colonists, Carthage grew into a vast economic and political power throughout the Mediterranean, accumulating wealth and influence through its economic (trading) prowess. Almost every city of importance of the world once started its history as a trading post Venice, New York, Shanghai, Singapore, Hong Kong, Naples, Rotterdam, etc.
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