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  Merchants and money

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Mercury, the Roman God of tradeAlthough money was known before the Roman invasion, it was only used widely for shopping after AD43. Markets grew in Chichester and other places, and people could buy wine and other foreign imports.
 
Questions
 Did the Romans use money to buy things?
 Where did the goods come from?
 Did they weigh and measure things?