people produced cloth, metal word, shoes and other good right in their house
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Guilds were able to choose, run the supplies people needed. If they didn't want someone to be successful, they would take the supplies the people would need.
these guilds were for the people who bought and sold goods on large scale, and who finaced ship and overland caravens to trade in distant land
The guilds are often divided into two types, merchants' and crafts' guilds. They were similar in many respects, such as being used to prevent outside competition. In other ways they were different; where crafts guilds often made newcomers go through a long process of apprenticeship, merchants' guilds sometimes gave membership to children of members and sometimes sold memberships.
This really can't be answered because records that exist often don't report this information. It also depends on the type of merchant and the goods he made or sold.
An ancient market is a place where goods are bought and sold. In Greece it was called an agora and in Rome it was called a forum.
The Africans sold were often criminals or convicted of a crime. They were traded for goods but often traded guns and firearms to these African kingdoms.