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

12464.432 - 12492.114 Gregory Aldrete

So if you simply get a map and map onto it where you could grow olives during this time, let's say first century AD, it corresponds exactly, I mean really closely, to the areas that are most heavily Romanized. Now, I'm not going to say that – But there is something to that where Roman culture spread successfully is where people grow the same crops. And that's just one of those fundamental things.