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The Importance of Trade in the Roman Empire
The Roman Empire is this vast market. It's even by the most modest modern assessments of population, you're talking 60 million people by the second century AD. The Romans loved silk because they couldn't, you know, it's such a fine and different fabric to anything they have. And there certainly are religious and other ideas that are passing philosophical ideas going through, but it's far more goods.
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