According to Cameron, Rome was like the Greek culture, since it was spread by Alexander the great. In the beginning, the romans were farmers that cared a lot about the right of owning, also known as property rights. (Cameron, 2009, p.37) Along with this, the Roman legislation also involved the freedom of trading businesses. After a while when the Roman empire started to expand in size because of the beneficial laws , they shifted from being focused on farming to care more for military. This launched the usage of slaves since someone had to do the farming the slaves or others with low social class was left to farm. Private property rights were still considered as important leading to the spread of this law. (Cameron, 2009, p. 38) Cameron continues with stating that the Pax Romana increased population for instance and lead to growth in the now empire that just continued to grow in size and population. (Cameron, 2009, p. 39) At this time according to Cameron the average salary of craftsman is about the same as for a British worker in the 1850s, but there was flaws with the empire as well. (Cameron, 2009, p. 40) Even though the roman empire had good agriculture and trade, they still had taxation system which went to the roman army for instance. The taxation was increasing, but since corruptcy was eminent, many rich nobles were excluded from taxation. …show more content…
40) The ongoing inflation, population decline, de-urbanization bad institutions when it came to taxation, lack of entrepreneurship and the fact that the Roman empire was a slave economy lead to the fall the once great