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

11028.678 - 11052.886 Gregory Aldrete

So it's like, okay, we're taxing you. You pay it in wheat if you're a farmer or something, not necessarily in cash. So it was – in many ways, the Roman economy is underdeveloped. They didn't have a lot of the sophisticated systems that we have today and it probably held them back in some ways. And again, they have that resistance to change. The Romans also had weird notions about –