Worse, but different too. How did all this political murdering affect the rural citizens doing their daily stuff? Compare with today and how a single or a few can screw everyone. But again, it’s also different, as even with all that most of the common people still have running water and things Romans couldn’t even imagine. And practically got rid of some diseases like measles…oh wait, that’s back.
How did all this political murdering affect the rural citizens doing their daily stuff?
Horribly. The resulting civil war(s) was a rare interruption of the Pax Romana which allowed immense prosperity, by pre-modern standards, to take root in even the countryside.
Armies marching through your land and fighting on it and requisitioning your shit and whatnot is not really great and can interrupt many functions of the society you would’ve relied on. Not exactly foreign invading army but still
GREAT summary and a reminder that as bad as it is today it’s been a lot worse.
Worse, but different too. How did all this political murdering affect the rural citizens doing their daily stuff? Compare with today and how a single or a few can screw everyone. But again, it’s also different, as even with all that most of the common people still have running water and things Romans couldn’t even imagine. And practically got rid of some diseases like measles…oh wait, that’s back.
Horribly. The resulting civil war(s) was a rare interruption of the Pax Romana which allowed immense prosperity, by pre-modern standards, to take root in even the countryside.
Armies marching through your land and fighting on it and requisitioning your shit and whatnot is not really great and can interrupt many functions of the society you would’ve relied on. Not exactly foreign invading army but still