GEOG 216 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Plough, Roman Economy, Crop Rotation
23 Nov 2017
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Geography of the world economy september 25th. In this network, everything was traded within the empire. Had common currency and common institutions that governed roman economy trade. The roman empire is a good example of trade expanding and contracting. Even today we can contract see depression of 2008. Just because the roman empire had a lot of trade at one point doesn"t mean that it. There is a rapid population growth in europe. would last forever. Trade to east continues through the byzantine empire while roman empire is breaking down (5th cent). Until about 1000 ad there are difficult times. Introduction of heavy plow, crop rotation and use of fertilizer, populations grew because of agricultural growth. This is when 90% of population was peasants. This is the time of lords and serfs. Peasants would farm portion of state land and would give portion of their crops to feudal lords as payment for being on their land.
