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127- Commanding The Economy

The History of Rome

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What if Everyone Pays in Pigs?

Diocletian used an equivalency chart to track the relative value of all the items. So many bushels of wheat equal so many shirts, equal so many miles transportation providedequal so many chickens and so on. Once everything was catalogued, the empire was reduced to two basic units, man power and land.

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