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Exporting grain by wagons to the coast can’t have been that viable could it? Am I missing something?
by zeristor 7y ago
Exporting grain by wagons to the coast can’t have been that viable could it? Am I missing something?
- dan-robertson 7y agoWhy wouldn’t that be viable? Eg lots of grain came to Rome from Sicily and it would need to make it to the coast from there somehow.
- jbattle 7y agoOstia to Rome was only 30km and they could use barges on the Tiber to send goods up/down
- Gibbon1 7y agoProbably not from Thamugadi. I think it was a frontier city with a garrison used to project Roman occupied territory to the north where the arable land was.