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Tin
Tin is a metal that, when alloyed with copper, produces bronze, making it a strategic commodity of the ancient world. Because tin deposits were rare, it was traded over long distances. Assyrian merchants at Kanesh imported tin into Anatolia, the Hittite Empire participated in the tin and copper trade, and Phoenician and Carthaginian voyages sought western sources of tin, as described in the Punic Empire profile.
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