The Roman Globalization (I)
A History of Mankind (228)
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Between the First Punic War and Augustus’ era, Italy’s domestic economy had only declined, as Roman men devoted most of their energy to taking over and rule the Mediterranean, and Rome itself evolved from small but prosperous riverine city-state into bureaucratic capital of an empire.
