To simulate the importance of trade and to encourge it on the game, I have been trying to strategically place unique luxury resouces for each of the ancient civ's in my scenario. Here's what I got so far, but I am open to suggests:

Carthage: Gems, Ivory
Eygpt: Ivory, Incense
Phoenicia: Dye, Gems
Persia: Incense, Dye
Greece: Marble, Olives
Rome: Marble, Olives
Britton: Tin
Gallia: Wool
Scythia: Opium
Germanic Tribes: Amber

As you can see, I can't think of any luxuries to differentciate Rome and Greece. I have firmly decided that wine should be available to all civ's.

What is the point of giving wine to everyone? The trading system is supposed to represent scarce resources, isn't it? Besides, the wine could easily solve your problem...

Follow-up

Wasn't there a particular type of urn/pottery that the Greeks were famous for trading?

just trying to bump the tread. HELP!!!

in the city of rome and the upper adriatic sea the romans had important glas-manufacures, as the egyptians... if you give both of 'em glass and leave away the marble (as the romans imported marble from elsewhere). the marble came (mainly) from the following provinces: Achaia, Macedonia, Asia (that means around the aegeian sea).

what about furs for the Germanic Tribes and Gallia, and Dyes for Britton?

Drusus,

Thanks. I wanted to make marble a strategic resource anyways. Glass it is.

Kal-el,

As a fairly common item, I made furs widely available through out the northern european part of my map. Thanks anyways.

quick notes

1. Olive oil, not olives, would have been the export. In the case of the Greeks, they would have been shipped in containers called amphorae, the same as used for wine.

2. Furs in a Med-based scenario is problematic as a luxury item as ancient Mediterranean cultures had little use for it.

3. Given that olive oil is a finished product rather than a raw material, you might want to continue alone those lines -- e.g., flax was a common plant as a "luxury" resource given the IIRC especially fine fabrics the Egyptians wove from it ... although here yuo have the inverse problem to (2) above -- i.e., very low demand for linen in, oh, say, Scandinavia or wherever.

4. Again with the Egyptians -- you neglected papyrus.

5. Ditto exotic animals -- lions for the arena as well as hunting animals for nobility; giraffes as curios, etc.

-Oz

PS check out this page (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?postid=1114123#post1114123) in the URL research library for resource maps.

-Oz