Did Rome Benefit From Expansion

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How did Rome profit from expansion in your area? (What did they get from you that they needed and how did that benefit their empire?) First of all Roman people invented taxes to get money. The taxes were at 1% but sometimes it raised as high as 3%. These modest taxes were levied against land, homes and other real estate, slaves, animals, personal items and monetary wealth. The Roman lake helped them to organize a sea trade. They sent boats from the East, West and the North, South. The sea trade helped them to get good stuff to Rome. How did your area profit after conforming to Roman society? (What did Rome give you in return? Goods? Services?, etc. The middle east and Romans were trading goods which they were exchanging through river crafts …show more content…

If Roman didn’t expanded to Middle East and India, then the silk, spices, perfume, glass, beef, corn, glassware, iron, lead, leather, marble, olive oil, perfumes, purple dye, silver, timber, tin and wine wouldn’t be discovered, and we might not even know what are these things and how to use it. What new products and ideas were created as result of your new resources and ideas from trade? The new ideas that Ancient Rome adopted from Ancient India was the use of spices silk, spices, perfume, glass, beef, corn, glassware, iron, lead, leather, marble, olive oil, perfumes, purple dye, silk, silver, spices, timber, tin and wine. They traded along the Silk Road between about 100 B.C. and the 15th century. http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/ancient-rome/ancient-rome-and-trade/ http://www.veda.harekrsna.cz/connections/Roman-Indian-trade.php How did your area change under Roman rule? (conformity and change) The Middle East and India prospered a lot from the Roman rule. They were exchanging items throughout trade routs every day. Indo-Roman relations began during the reign of Augustus (23 Sept. 63 BCE – 19 Aug. 14 CE), the first emperor of the Roman Empire. Also in India, the Indians adopted from Rome had a silver coin of an embedded drawing of a local ruler wearing Roman-type helmet with