More than 90% of the population of Roman Empire came from the rural poor and it was barely making ends meet. The Roman historian Titus Livius mentions a centurion who in the 2nd century BCE. After inheriting a provincial house and one iugerum (about two-thirds of an acre) of land, he had to feed his wife and eight children.
The deduction of skeletons from various regions of the Empire proves that over the centuries the poorest population suffered numerous epidemics and malnutrition.
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