ABSTRACT
The starting point begins with international trade, something which has been practised by many civilizations over many thousands of years. A visit to any museum will reveal some of the artefacts of ancient daily life which were traded across vast distances, as with the Roman treasures still being found in Britain today. These ancient goods represent what today we might call standardized products. The urns, bowls, vases and pottery ware, which are all identified as indisputably Roman, conformed to a certain specification of manufacture and were then transported.
