Why was farming so difficult in ancient rome?
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The farmers of Rome were plebeians, the poorer people. When the slave market became popular, the farmers were out of jobs.
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Ever since there have been more than one group of humans living nearby eachother -  Tens of thousands of years. It is more useful to enslave an enemy than to kill him. He can till your fields, pick your corn, and carry heavy items. There were slaves as far back as recorded history, and it surely has gone on since the population explosion after the last iceage.
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Keep in mind, this was in the times of ancient Rome.  The times were different back then, they used diff days, not as many, and the rulers adjusted the calendars as they pleased.  Translating from then to now is difficult.  But we celebrate it as close to the day we believe it happened as possible.\n-Duo
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The latifundia [Latin lātifundium: lātus, "spacious" + fundus, "farm, estate"] of Roman history were great landed estates, specialising in agriculture destined for export: grain, olive oil or wine. They were characteristic of Magna Graecia and Sicily, of Egypt and the North African Maghreb and of Hispania Baetica in southern Spain. The latifundia were the closest approximation to industrialized agriculture in Antiquity, and their economics depended upon slave labour.\n\n"Latifundia" is often extended to describe the haciendas of colonial and post-colonial Mexico, Venezuela, Chile (called "Latifundio" or simply "Fundo") and Argentina.\n\nContrast the villa system of Antiquity, the plantation systems, and modern monocultures in agribusiness.
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seeing as how the renaissance age is very interesting to me, i would think that it was the same as a cook of today. just with more of the dirty work. for instance with chicken; today, cooks just pull it out of the package and dress it up nicely. back then the cook or house maid would have to go out, get the biggest or healthiest chicken and slaughter it. then bring it home and clean it, prepare it, cook it and serve it. or with butter; that to me would have been the most difficult. having to stand with a paddle and push and turn and all by hand for HOURS! so yeah, i hope that helped!
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Do you want the first time they ever had agriculture or when they first started recording agriculture?  \nAgriculture started in Mesopotamia: \n\nMesopotamian (Babylonian) evidence of cultivation of \nVitis vinifera (grapes) and grain (barley and wheat) 4500-4000 BC
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"...since ancient times, the Rubicon River had marked the northernmost boundary of Rome proper. Across the boundary a Roman general could not go while at the head of his army. For such a man to lead his troops in battle gear into the heart of Rome was against one of the oldest laws on the Roman law books. It was treason."\n\nThus, Caesar was going south.
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Brace yourself - this is long, but hopefully worth your time. Here goes---> During the 10 million years humans were living as nomads, there was no concept of locking up food... food grew and walked around outside, and people went out when they were hungry and killed something or picked something and ate it. There was always farming, because they recognized that fruit came from seeds - and it does not take a genius to think to poke a few seeds into the dirt so there would be more of the plants they liked best when the tribe came back that way again. But then there were a few people who wanted more of the favored foods than they had before, and they invested more time in farming. And then there were those who wanted still more, and still more. Those few tribes became settled in the area of the Fertile Crescent and farmed like crazy. They consequently wound up with a surplus of food, which led to a boom in population (that's a no-brainer). And when some said that it was silly to keep working in light of this surplus of tasty eats, it was pointed out that the tribe was bigger. And when some folks still felt lazy and missed the good old days of lounging about visiting and snacking on whatever was around, someone got the great idea that the people would have no choice but to work if the food was kept locked away - people would get so much food for so much work. And guards were appointed to mind the stores, which kept them from all that gardening (and for which they were probably grateful). And always this new surplus, and always more babies. So eventually there is a need for more land for farming, and the best way to get that is to kill off the neighbors - which they could do, since their numbers were greater and they had the food to sustain them through long campaigns of war. And so it went, on and on, until that one culture who decided to plunk themselves down in one spot spread all over the world. And that culture is now us. Wherever you are, if you are reading this, we are the same culture. So that's pretty much what happened. It was not necessarily this general "giving up" of the nomadic ways... it was forced. And the 2 big complexities we enjoy because of that are 1- WORK, as we know it. Management. Trading your services for money to get food (because if you could figure out how to eat without slaving at you crap job all day, would you bother to show up?)and 2- WAR, as we know it. Before this time, tribes were like Native Americans. There were skirmishes at their borders and the occasional night raid, but no one was trying to utterly destroy one another, which is what happened to tribes that tried to have the Fertile Crescent Totalitarian Agrarists Society as neighbors... and is still happening to "tribes" who resist the encroachment of our culture today. Wow, I got on a roll there. I think I'll take a nap now.
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Today there are old books on line because the copy wright has expired and many are being typed in a web site for all to read free. The farm as we know it was just emerging for the common man from life as a serf tied to the land owner. Many farmers in Europe were just allowed to use a piece of land. In New France some came out and claimed land just by marking it in an area protected by their soldiers. There is an amazing story of a French group being sold land on the  Ohio River that was totally undeveloped. The immigrants were all from down town Paris and were used to working one job for the aristocracy. When they had spent all their savings and traveled by ship and land to the river location they found huge trees and wonderful soil. Without proper tools they chopped tree after tree and then hollowed them out for a home. Animals and fish were obtained anyway they could. Gunpowder was there but scarce. The will to live away from the crazy Kings in Europe and the many wars allowed the spirit of the pioneers to be totally awesome. They stayed until a farm was made. The Louisiana French were taken by the English army and forced to beg among the New England colonies one winter . Life was never safe anywhere.
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Lazieness is one factor..a major one. Remember it was a slothfull induvidual who wouldnt work by the sweat of his brow who came up with the theory that evolved into communism...the evil empire. Also people who wre not raised to work with their hands but to chase after materialistic gains will not want to take real work but whatever can make easy money. They are spoiled...rotten\n Regards, Ammo
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Mostly opportunity. Italy was heavily populated and had few jobs at all. Employment was the main concern.
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What about them?\nThey existed.  Usually they were paid in goods rather than coinage (which didn't exist for much of early Mesopotamian history).  So, depending on income, land tenure, etc., people paid a certain number of livestock and/or grain or equivalent in other goods to the central authorities.\nAnd, as one might expect, people cheated or tried to get out of paying taxes.\n\nTaxes are usually considered as separate from tribute.  Tribute was payed by conquered territories or by those territories that didn't wish to be conquered in exchange for, bluntly, the Mesopotamian great power of the moment (Akkadians, Assyrians, Babylonians) not to come rip down their city walls, run off with the women and children, and kill the men in horrible and novel ways.
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Because nobody said life was easy. Without struggle you wouldn't become a better person. That's why you get so much obstacles in your way.
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I don't think Rome existed in 1000 B.C.  That may be part of why you're having trouble finding anything.
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Agricultural tools consisted of wooden digging sticks and hoes of stone or animal bone. \n\n\nChipped and flaked tools such as knives, scrapers, saws.\n\n\nThey did not know how to use metal.
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It stands to reason that the Gladiators of the Roman era were smaller than the football players of today.\n\nDiet, life expectancy, being major factors/evidences.\n\nAlso, the training methods and unprocessed foods would have left them much lighter than our footballers.
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he few roads that still existed were in a bad state, bridges were scarce, and brigands were common. For this reason during the Dark Ages, which lasted until about 1000 A.D., populations were tightly bound to the land surrounding the feudal lord's castle. People moved about only when there were festivals in other cities. These were the only occasions on which people could buy or look at different goods and have a chance to sell their own food or objects and fabrics made for sale. Fear controlled people’s lives and induced them to ask for protection from powerful warriors who had constructed well-defended castles, or from monasteries, which did not have soldiers but did have thick walls to hide behind. Life was hard, and , people thought little of clothing. Clothes were often made at home and were often rough and shapeless. Trousers, tunics and shawls were used to keep away the cold. The shawls were made of wool or fur and put over the shoulder. Most Europeans were dressed like today’s Benedictine monks, except for men’s trousers. Shoes were leather wrapped around the foot. Colors were plain; they were shades of gray, brown, dark blue and red. Conical hats were commonly worn.\n\nThis was a pyramidal society because the classes of people were in a shape of a pyramid.. with the kings and queens at the top of the pyramid (and were few in number) down to the peasants (who were many in number). In the middle were feudal lords, clerics, and others, such as vassals.\n\nTAILORING\nIn the Middle Ages, for the wealthy, most clothes were created by tailors. Some fabrics tailors used were : Burnet, perse, lincoln scarlet, kersey, russet, chalons, damask, and sandal. (Most of the population, however, made their clothing themselves).\n\nCLOTHING\nOften, kings and queens would wear crowns and brightly colored silks. Obviously, their clothing was very expensive and only they had enough money to afford such beautiful things.\n\nShoemakers and their spouses often wore borealis hats. The clothes they wore with that were woolen coats with fur-trimmed sleeves. Inside the coat was a woolen doublet.\n\nHoly orders, such as friars, wore cloaks with hoods and habits. On their clothes was a rope belt with wooden beads for counting prayers.\n\nFelt hats with stirrups and brown jackets were the daily wear of manor lords. Peasants' daily wear was simple: straw hats that they made themselves, linen shirts that they made themselves, leather flasks, hoses (pants), and pewter badges or good luck charms.