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Rome. -- (link)

Posted by Loyola Oct 16 '08, 15:20

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Peasants became slaves willingly to avoid having to pay taxes! This phenomenon was so widespread and so injurious to the state's revenues, that in 368 AD Emperor Valens declared it illegal to renounce one's liberty. (www.everything2.net)

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Think of it more as a condensed treatise of the economic problems of the Roman empire. -- nm - Loyola Oct 16, 15:49 2
- crash -- nm - Loyola Oct 16, 15:50 1
  - still my comment stands, it really is condensed as to be an oversimplification, another example is it ignores the political instability and civil wars -- nm - crash davis Oct 16, 16:09
that really is a vast oversimplification of an immensely complex subject, for example it almost reads like Roman expansion stopped with Augustus -- nm - crash davis Oct 16, 15:38

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