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DetlefK

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27. Economically, the roman victory in the 2nd Punic War was a disaster.

Reply to Aristus (Reply #1)

Wed Mar 20, 2019, 05:41 AM

Mar 2019

The Roman Empire annexed Iberia from the Carthage Empire. But Iberia was an agricultural province, producing massive amounts of wheat and other grains.

The cheap wheat dropped the prices so far that many roman farmers went bankrupt and that is how a permanent economic under-class was born: the Proletariat.

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