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Upper-class Romans who owned latifundia had enough capital to improve their crops and livestock with new strains, putting peasant smallholders at a competitive disadvantage. Thus latifundia virtually supplanted the small farm as the regular agricultural unit in Italy and in the provinces by the 3rd century ad.

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The consequences of the rise of large estates in the Roman Empire are many, among them are the following:

  • There is a broad division of labor among the people working in the estates where some are slaves, and some are free.
  • There is also an increase in the number of economic activities.
  • There is an increase in capital for estate owners to improve their crops and livestock profitably, thereby pushing out small farmers out of the business.
  • The cost of owning a slave becomes expensive.
  • The likes of coloni, and tenant farmers, then later replaced farm slave workers.

The increase in large estates in the Roman Empire has significance in terms of economic, local politics, and cultural centers.

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