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What have the Romans ever done for us? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-fRo5-p9hE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-fRo5-p9hE http://peterburk.github.io/plin
by peterburkimsher 9y ago
What have the Romans ever done for us?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-fRo5-p9hE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-fRo5-p9hE
http://peterburk.github.io/pliny/ChaptersHtml/0/1.%20PlinyPedia.html http://peterburk.github.io/pliny/ChaptersHtml/0/1.%20PlinyPe...
- adrianN 9y agoThere is a lot of discussion online why the Romans didn't have an industrial revolution. One argument I heard was that they relied too much on slave labor and improvements in productivity weren't really sought after. See for example here https://medium.com/@MarkKoyama/could-rome-have-had-an-industrial-revolution-4126717370a2 https://medium.com/@MarkKoyama/could-rome-have-had-an-indust...