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Why Is Agriculture Important In Ancient Rome

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Agriculture in ancient Rome was not only a necessity, but was idealized among the social elite as a way of life. Farming was considered the best of all Roman occupations.

The Amish have all of their members relatively close to the land, and a larger percentage actually engaged in agriculture; and Ancient Rome had a much larger percentage of the population engaged in other pursuits and in constituting other levels of a much more stratified society (peasant farmers, soldiers, craftsmen, politicians, aristocrats, royal rulers); nonetheless, both societies, being at a relatively primitive technological level, depended totally on their own agriculture, an agriculture carried out by those who labored in the fields, for the sustenance if the society
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