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Re:Roman mosaic floor found under Italian vineyard by Ma8ee on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @06:01PM (#23330615)
Except something like 98% of the population were farmers and most of them were never allowed into a rich man’s house
Re:Roman mosaic floor found under Italian vineyard by Retric on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @07:17PM (#23331352)
More 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.
Re:Roman mosaic floor found under Italian vineyard by Gibbon1 on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @09:19PM (#23332270)
I remember reading somewhere that urbanization in Roman Empire was higher than before and after. Like 20% or something.