[lit-ideas] Roman Agriculture
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My last post today!
In a message dated 5/11/2014 6:20:42 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Which causes me to wonder whether this advantage, the advantage of
practicing agriculture for longer than their neighbors gave Rome an advantage
over
its neighbors for longer than if those neighbors had been farmers and not
merely herders.
There is a fascinating entry in Wikipedia for Roman agriculture!
From it, I extract:
"In the 5th century BC, farms in Rome were small and family-owned. The
Greeks of this period, however, had started using crop rotation and had large
estates. Rome's contact with Carthage, Greece, and the Hellenistic East in
the 3rd and 2nd centuries improved Rome's agricultural methods. Roman
agriculture reached its height in productivity and efficiency during the late
republic and early empire."
L. Helm:
>the advantage of practicing agriculture for
longer than their neighbours gave Rome an advantage...
However, it does not seem to have given the _Greeks_ an advantage, and as
the Wikipedia notes, while the Greeks were excelling the Romans [using crop
roration on larger estates, and stuff], and granted, they were not _strict_
neighbours, they got defeated by them?
Cheers,
Speranza
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