Introduction: effects of trade; 1. Aegean agency in Mediterranean exchange; 2. Becoming Mycenaean: definitions of civilization, style, and art; 3. Imports in the early Mycenaean period; 4. Crafting power through import consumption; 5. Import consumption in palatial centers; 6. Funerary consumption and competition in the Argolid; 7. Conclusions: foreign and domestic in the Mycenaean world.