Today's Class

In today's class, we kept taking some notes on Rome.  We did not have as many notes to take as the past few classes.

Economic Change, Social Upheaval

• Slaves poured into Italy (50,000 Carthaginians, 150,000 Greek POWs, etc.)
• By the end of the second century BCE there were over a million slaves in Italy
• The big farms became massive estates called latifundia