'The Latifundia System in Rome\r'

'The latifunda system, which established eldest in ancient Rome around second century BC, were large farms which were owned by the tight descriptores. The latifundia became common in the Roman Empire as a result of the decline of Roman clean-living values and the political corruption that resulted from the acquisition of riches and power that the Empire brought. With the breakdown of the Pax Romana and the softness of Roman law to provide security, small landowners more and more turned to larger, more powerful estates for security.Peasants turned all over their land to the latifundia and formed a new class called the knuckle downs. Slaves from conquered territory were bought and forced to manage and work. The abundant release of slaves led to increase in worse force presumption and decrease in free laborers on these large estates. These estates turned plantation systems included a lot of working slaves, known as Latifundias, became democratic and spread throughout many re gions in the Roman. In my opinion, it is not ignorable that the latifundia led to huge increase in proceeds and trade, so more profit and wealth. provided these gains served only the flush(p) landowners.Latifundia benefited the elite class greatly, because it provided license as merchant traders and they used cheap slave labour force to gain more pastoral or animal product. With the latifundia, instead of previous demands to flummox grain, a new age of farming was introduced, producing olive oil and wine, and herding sheep and cattle for trade. In my opinion the increase gap between lords and slaves was a negative nucleus of latifunda that lead to some social problems. For instance, only the wet could afford to lease this land they eventually began treating it as if it were their own and not the states.The small farmers and slaves became to depend on the wealthy class and lose their freedom. Sometimes thither are several protests were all in exploit to lessen the power gap b etween the wealthy and poor, but, as the protests kept being overturned. However latent hostility between the wealthy and peasants continued to increase. One of the authorized negative effects of latifundia system is â€Å"Over-farming”. As self-governing farmers were replaced by large slave-farmed estates the basis of farming became short-run profit; so there was little through in terms of conservation or properly fertilizing crops, so fertility decreased quickly in these agricultural areas. Large areas of southern Italy became literal body bowls, as they remain today.As a result, Italy could no all-night feed itself. In sum, although the latifunda system raised the production and trade, it lead to negative social and environmental condition which would cause bigger problem in approaching in Rome.\r\n'