The Roman conquest brought about an expansion of the Roman republic, from some of the new territories the Roman s taxed, therefore with each conquest came more wealth, especially to those that controlled the government i.e. the senate. So Rome was wealthy its conquests and control of trade routes brought more money in form of loot, taxes and commerce(Lazenby 1999). As the Roman s conquered more and more lands, they acquired more slaves, and the wide use of slave labor to work on farming estates(Morey 1901), this had a toll on small subsistence farmers as the laws of supply and demand was put into action. Small farmers could not compete with products from the farming estates, putting them into debt eventually making them to sell their land