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Agriculture (​
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http://www.unrv.com/economy.php ­ http://historylink101.com/2/Rome/roman­farming.htm ­ http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Latifundia.aspx ­ Farmers donated their surplus crops to the government instead paying tax in the form of money. 1
This allowed the rulers (Both Republican and Imperial rulers) to become more popular as their was free grain that was distributed to feed legions with no associated cost. 2The only downside of this strategy was that farmers had no motivation to increase their yields as all the surplus was to be donated to the government anyways.3 However having grain available for everyone helped build their Empire. A latifundium is a large piece of land that belongs to a single individual or family. Tended to be worked on by slaves. Through ways, kinda legal latifundium took lands from the public domain and took over the holdings of poor peasants. A latifundista was a landlord, and he monopolized huge tracts of land. This system has been blamed for hindering modernization, not encouraging social mobility and the rise of the middle classes, making few amounts of people wealthy, and “finally for destroying the peasantry and unraveling rural society”. Agriculture and trade was the main source of economy of Rome. olives, oils and wine were the specialties that rome had to offer as in trade, including the additional foodstuffs (grains, meats, etc). Farmers could donate their excess crops to the government in return for monetary taxes which every citizen had to pay their worth for. This allowed an imperial or republican to become very popular by the masses distributing free grain to the poor population. “Romans did use a limited form of 2 tier crop rotation, but crop production was largely low output and required a vast number of slaves to operate at any volume.” ⁴ ­ used slaves to work the fields ­ slaves were widely available and provided cheap labour ­ fields were plowed with an ard­type plow: heavy stick pulled by an ox ­ later, they added a coulter plow: helped to break up the soil before the plowshare would turn the soil over ­ grain was harvested by hand until the first century CE "Ancient Roman Economy ­ UNRV History." 2004. 17 Nov. 2015 <​
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at this time, a reaping machine called a vallus was invented in Gaul (modern day France) ­ allowed for an easier harvest agriculture and trade dominated Roman economic fortunes staple crops: various grains, olives, grapes used 2 tier crop rotation crop production was largely low output and required a vast number of slaves to operate at any volume was done on large estates ­ owners of these estates often lived in town for the majority of the year and a manager, called a vilicus, would supervise the farm work on the estate