The History Of Rome Tr By Wp Dickson With Index Popular Ed

Author : Theodor Mommsen
Publisher : General Books
ISBN 13 : 9781458920799
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book The History of Rome, Tr. by W.P. Dickson. [With] Index written by Theodor Mommsen and published by General Books. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 362 CHAPTER XII. THE MANAGEMENT OF LAND AND OF CAPITAL. Roman It is in the sixth century of the city that we first find economics, materials for a history of the times exhibiting in some measure the mutual connection of events; and it is in that century also that the economic condition of Home emerges into view more clearly and distinctly. It was at this epoch that the wholesale system, as regards both the cultivation of land and the management of capital, became first established under the form, and on the scale, which afterwards prevailed; although we cannot exactly discriminate how much of that system is traceable to earlier precedent, how much to an imitation of the methods of husbandry and ot' speculation among peoples that were earlier civilized, especially the Phoenicians, and how much to tbe growth of capital and the growth of intelligence in the nation. A summary outline of these economic relations will conduce to a more accurate understanding of the internal history of Rome. Roman husbandry applied itself either to the farming of estates, to the occupation of pasture lands, or to the tillageof petty holdings. A very distinct view of the first of these is presented to us in the description given by Cato. In order to gain a true idea of ancient Italy, it is necessary for us to bear in mind the great changes which have been produced there by modern cultivation. Of the cerealia, rye was not cultivated in antiquity; and the Romans of the Empire were astonished to find that oats, with which they were well acquainted as a weed, was used by the Germans for making porridge. Rice was first cultivated in Italy at the end of the fifteenth, and maize at the beginning of the sixteenth, century. Potatoes and tomatoes were brought from America; artichokes seem to be no...