Roman Life
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- Fresh Water and Aqueducts
- Yay, Fresh water!
- Free Food
- Food! We want food!
- Everyone will get some food.
- Entertainment
- I want red team to win!
- The aqueducts allow people in the city of Rome to get fresh water.
- Work in the City
- Grain was taken from farmers as a tax, and used to feed the poor in the city.
- Taxing of Farmers
- The Romans had almost every other day a holiday, so they didn't work half the year. They watched gladiator fights and chariot racing to keep themselves occupied.
- Surpluses
- Since they had every other day off, barely any work was finished. The city increasingly relied on other provinces for food because Rome could not produce enough.
- Wasn't it a holiday just yesterday?
- No work! Yay!
- The farmers' surpluses were taken in the form of a tax, so that people in the city would not go hungry.
- Give me your surplus-Emperor
- The Empire needs your surplus.
- The taken surplus would have been sold by the farmer, so the farmer would be angry about a government basically forcing farmers into poverty, and would see no point of growing a surplus.
- Why should I even grow a surplus if it will just get taken away?
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