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Historians have long asserted that during and after the Hannibalic Battle, the Roman Republic's need to conscript men for long-term military service helped lead to the demise of Italy's small farms and that the misery of impoverished residents then became gas for the interpersonal and political conflagrations of the overdue republic. Nathan Rosenstein challenges this claim, demonstrating how Rome reconciled the needs of war and agriculture throughout the center republic.The main element, Rosenstein argues, lies in knowing the critical role of family formation. By analyzing models of family members' needs for agricultural labor over their life cycles, he shows that families often experienced a surplus of manpower to meet the demands of military conscription. Performed, then, Roman imperialism play any role in the interpersonal crisis of the later second century B.C.?Rosenstein argues that Roman warfare experienced critical demographic repercussions that have vanished unrecognized by previous historians: heavy military mortality paradoxically helped preserve a dramatic increase in the birthrate, eventually resulting in overpopulation and landlessness.
