Trade Resource Descriptions: Help the EBII Team

[Arjos]

What I think is especially hard is having slaves as a resource, since mostly they were captured in battle or were born in slavery - therefore impossible to represent on a map. How do you see this?

Afaik there were major hubs, where they were sold to Mediterranean polities (for example Delos, Rhodos, Massalia). So those could be used, representing the "middle man" so to speak. Otherwise there were areas, which became almost a byword for slaves. Like Paphlagonia or the Northern Euxeinos, especially near Tanais. I might say an absurdity now, but I think "warslaves" were usually employed by the conqueror for important constructions and mining. Or more often "slaves" obtained in war, were really just relocated.

I've read also a good chapter about the economic aspects, showing how "bad" too much volume was. For it plummeted the prices, ransoming was a far more profitable enterprise.
So certain cultures, with endemic "small wars", provided a constant source, which didn't "bust" the market in a way...