ABSTRACT
The conquest and occupation of the East widened the field of industrial activity round the Eastern Mediterranean, as they had widened the domain of agriculture and pastoral production. Industry henceforward had at its disposal, first, the raw materials which it had employed before, but in bigger quantities and without having to go abroad for them, and, secondly, new raw materials, the use of which, doubtless inherited from the ancient civilizations of the East, introduced processes which the Greeks had not previously practised.
