Romans enslaved other people, plundered and looted other people's wealth and treasures too. Even if ancient Roman empire was rich, that itself doesn't make the logic that modern Europeans got rich by not plundering others' wealth and enslaving them too in the past few centuries.Europeans were super rich before. Or do you consider Rome poor?
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Was the Roman Empire based on a 'plunder economy'?
Answer (1 of 8): The Romans did do a lot of plundering from the provinces they conquered, but their approach was a bit more nuanced than the phrase “plunder economy” makes it seem. Particularly in the days of the Republic, there was a lot of plundering of foreign territories. Thousands of tons o...
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