One of the ideas on the domestic slate for the Demos Exoria was encouraging the Barbaroi living in the interior to drive their bucolic herds of cattle to Eretria in spring and summer and hold a cattle market outside the city, creating a trade route:
Personally, I think this is a really good idea, and cattle markets tend to be the kind of large movement that other trade cycles get built around, so it could probably form the foundation of more trade. Whether through voting in the next election if it reappears on the slate, or a user motion, I would like to see us doing this. Additionally, I think there are great synergies here if we establish a saltworks at Lake Salpia.
The inland barbaroi like the Peuketii and Mesapii do not have easy coastal access, so we could establish inland trade routes to sell them salt at good prices, right along the cattle routes, which is probably another staple trade route by itself. On top of that, given they have large herds of cattle, they have large amounts of milk, and salt can be used to make cheese. So they could also buy our salt and then bring us cheese when they come to trade in spring and summer, further increasing the potential benefits to everyone.
