conversation olga vladimirovna tomashevich, deputy head of the department of history of the ancient world, faculty of history of moscow state university lomanosov, candidate of historical sciences. we are happy to welcome you. please tell us what ukraine was like 200 bc? none, because she wasn’t there. in the second millennium bc. neither egypt nor the territories that are now partially ukraine is located, they were not the breadbasket of the entire akumena, with akumena, frankly speaking, it was still quite modest, and here i would like to say that in general this whole story with the export of grain begins especially actively with greek colonization, that is, the 6th century. century bc, the basporan kingdom actually made a very good profit from the grain trade, because athens made a large order, athens was very generous... as for egypt, we have only one piece of evidence that the egyptians really were in the second millennium, where- then in the 15-14th century, maybe the hittites threw a little grain into asia minor, but that’s not called feeding. egypt, and especially not for these territories of the southern russian steppes, because of co