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Except something like 98% of the population were farmers and most of them were never allowed into a rich man’s house
by Ma8ee 6y ago
Except something like 98% of the population were farmers and most of them were never allowed into a rich man’s house
- Retric 6y agoMore like 70% to 90%, just the city of Rome got up to 750k-1M people let alone all the other cities in the empire. A great deal of this was due to Egyptian farmers ability to grow multiple crops per year on the same land. Fishing was similarly extremely productive in terms of labor to food production.
- Gibbon1 6y agoI remember reading somewhere that urbanization in Roman Empire was higher than before and after. Like 20% or something.