#443 – Gregory Aldrete: The Roman Empire – Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome

10835.564 - 10858.206 Gregory Aldrete

He can maybe raise taxes, but that would be the ways that he's affecting the whole empire. And here we get into technology does matter. We're dealing with a world where let's say you're in Rome and you're the emperor and you want to send a message to a province far away, let's say Judea. That message might take one or two months to get there and one or two months to get a reply.