The Roman Empire and Its People

The roman empire was defined by gross inequality. The minimum annual wealth requirement for admission into the senatorial order was one million sesterces, orders of magnitude from the 20 thousand sesterces it took to simply exist on a daily basis. To describe it accurately, you basically start with a vast horde of poor citizens and go up from there. Ten times richer than the poor was a group ten times smaller that could be defined as lower middle class. Though the only obvious benefit of their higher annual income was that they did not qualify for any state welfare,. And thus wound up struggling just as mightily as the poor to stay afloatTen times richer than this. Lower middle class was a much