Ancient Rome and wine Gaul. The Romans established lucrative trading relations with local tribes of Gaul, despite their potential to produce wine of their own. The Gallic tribes paid high prices for Roman wine, with a single amphora worth the value of a slave. From the Mediterranean coast, the Romans pushed further up the Rhone Valley, to areas where olives and figs were unable to grow but where oak trees were still found. As a result of their experience in what is now northeastern Italy, the Romans knew that regions where "Quercus ilex" were found had climates sufficiently warm enough to allow the full
Names of the Greeks the colonists and then for all Greeks; this became the root of all relevant terms in European languages. The Persians used the name "Yaunas" ("Yunans") after the Ionians, a Greek tribe who colonized part of the coasts of western Asia Minor. The term was used later in Hebrew ("Yevanim", ), Arabic, and also by the Turks. The word entered the languages of the Indian subcontinent as the "Yona". A unique form is used in Georgian, where the Greeks are called "Berdzeni" (ბერძენი). By Late Antiquity (c. 3rd–7th century CE), the Greeks referred to themselves as "Graikoi" (, "Greeks") and "Rhomaioi"/"Romioi"