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DowsingSpoon
9y ago
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I thought that all sorts of skilled labor was done by slaves in Ancient Rome?
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WalterBright
9y ago
The Roman economy didn't have to compete with free labor ones.
Ancient Sparta had to militarize all their free men in order to keep their slaves in check.
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