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Tuesday, August 11, 2020

The gold of Rome


THE GOLD OF ROME -- 8/11/200 COMMENTS

Eu não tinha ideia de que existiram minas de ouro entre Portugal e Espanha
The Reach of Rome Today's selection -- from The Reach of Rome by Alberto Angela. The Roman Empire was built on a large standing army, and that army was only possible because of the mining of gold to pay the soldiers. That gold was in turn mined by conquered peasants and slaves, and in its early days, the source of gold for Rome was in Spain near the border of what is now Portugal, here described in present tense by following the imaginary travels of a Roman named Marcus:

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