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It is implied in the passage that the early Romans ----.
Like nearly all the peoples of the ancient world, the
Romans took slavery for granted. Nothing in Rome's
earlier experience had prepared it, however, for the
huge increase in slave numbers that resulted from its
western and eastern conquests. In 146 B.C., fifty-five
thousand Carthaginians were enslaved after the
destruction of their city; not long before, one hundred
and fifty thousand Greek prisoners of war had met
the same fate. By the end of the second century B.C.,
there were a million slaves in Italy alone, making
Roman Italy one of the most slave-based economies
known to history. The majority of these slaves worked
as agricultural labourers on the vast estates of the
Roman aristocracy. Some of these estates were the
result of earlier Roman conquests within Italy itself.
But others were constructed by aristocrats buying up
the land holdings of thousands of small farmers who
found themselves unable to compete with the great
estate-owners in producing grain for the market.