[quote=@Wernher]
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Ehhhh, I might want to change location then.

If we go by that logic, then according to wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Italy , Italy is barren of any mineral wealth. Obviously its because modern day mining makes it unprofitable to exploit minerals from a first world country with deposits that aren't rich enough because otherwise it would mean the Roman empire started itself with just wood and marble. Now I could drag up the Roman mining article, but it describes what the entire republic/empire used so now I have to find very granular data to justify anything. And on the other side, some countries that are now considered extremely rich in mineral are only so because advanced mining technology allows to access these minerals and they wouldn't have been available during antiquity.

Now, I'm not bitching, I understand you have to run this show and this is an easy way to do it, but if this is how you want to do it I will relocate Astrid to Oristano, Sardigna, Italy since it will make anything resource wise sooo much more simple.
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Okay and you are free to change your location. More so since you have not posted yet. Admittedly, when I played earlier versions of this as a player. It was not really explained to me how it worked, and so this is what I did. If you can think of a better system, then feel free. Since I did find while looking at Italy's ancient cultures, that it had copper mines in the north near France in the past, which was not listed in the economy section of the wiki page. So if you say it is there a resource you should have. I can just look it up and see for myself. I do not mind.    

But, this is how I plan to do it unless someone or I think of another way to do things when it comes to getting resources.