>owns the entire Mediterranean Seriously, who the fuck

The Black Kings

>>3000083
Themselves

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>>3000083

Why not look at the numbers instead

>>3000083

You have a whole Mediterranean sitting around making your trade for you?

That's slavery.

>It's society. They work for each other, Morty. They pay each other. They buy houses.

>They get married and make children that replace them when they get too old to make power.

That just sounds like slavery with extra steps.

>Ooh-la-la, someone's gonna get laid in college

>>3000083
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road#Roman_Empire

>>3000083
why would you need to trade when you control that much?

>>3000083
the chinese

>>3000103
Doesn't seem like slavery to me, anon. None of the merchants or craftsmen in the roman empire worked "for" rome, they were just taxed when they traded with other members of the empire.

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>>3000103
>unironically using a Rick and Morty quote
Mcfucking kill yourself senpai

>>3000089
Uhhh this. What kind of a stupid question is that OP?

>>3000103
>>3000172
This
Faggot

China

>metropolis conquer new land
>roman laws & send slaves to work for rome
> said territories commerce with nearby people and send tribute to metropolis
>territory gets huge
>military conquest stagnate
>slaves flow decreases dramatically
>road to ruin

>>3000103
>quoting rick and morty
plebbit was a mistake

>>3000083
They didn't need trade when they had everything they needed

>>3000000

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>>3000104
>>3000156
>>3000202
This

The Romans had direct martitime trade links with Yemen, Aden, Oman, India and Sri Lanka. Traders there had links with China, Thailand, Burma, etc. They traded all kinds of things like gold, spices, etc.

>>3000089
You can ship production and food from one of your cities to another, but you need a different civilization in order to trade for a profit

Why would they need to trade? Their currency is mineable. They can be self-sustaining. Arguably, their obsession with foreign (Asian) goods was a major cause of problems within the economy.

They took a system that could self-sustain for a good long time and exported it East.
>>3001026
Profit? They could simply produce more. They had slave labor, a system which sustains very well when damned paper currency isn't in the way. Profit is inherent, trade simply opens a hole for that profit to leak from.

>>3001026
Wrong. Profits are divorced from whether trade is internal or external.

>>3000103
fag

>>3000103
best bait I've seen in a while, or I hope it's bait

>>3001026
wat

>>3001026

>but you need a different civilization in order to trade for a profit

So an egyptian selling grain to a gaul while both being part of the roman empire won't make a profit, while few centuries before he did, being independent ?

>>3001026
you've been playing too much Civ

If you ever opened a book you retard fuck youd know one of the reasons of Rome's economy decliend was trade with the East which depleted their silver and gold reserves,

>>3000083
Retard

>>3001369
this, lol

>>3000103
if this is bait it is the funniest shit ever
if not it is the most cringiest

>>3001026
profit is between individuals. you're thinking of civilisations as single entities either individuals or companies engaged in same operations

it's the same idea why people think US is dependent on China

>>3001026
You fucking fool.

>>3000083
China, Persia, India, etc.

>>3001026
Historically it was impossible to sail past sicily both ways until the 1830s up to thst time the journey from france to greece, lets say, took 12 years

>>3001026
Nigger do you even know what domestic market is? They also traded with the Arabians.

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>>3003403
>took 12 years
Wrong

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Jesus Christ, /his/ really does always take the bait.

>>3003584
Modern humans have longer legs therefore shorter walking time, also roads, sidewalks, etc.

>>3001026
>if someone from California trades with someone in Texas, he can't turn a profit

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How on Earth did they do it?

>>3003584
Google maps doesn't factor in resting on long walking trips, so you're really looking at a ~2 month journey there. And that's with modern roads. The lower level of fitness people have in the modern era compared to the average medieval person might balance it out a bit, but you could probably get by carrying just water and a little food today where that route before would've required the same kind of prep you'd make to walk the Appalachian trail today.

>>3000000

>>3000083
>>9999999

>>3001026
But what you must understand is that there were no boats back then.

>>3003584
I laughed so hard

>>3003672
Do what?

>>3003680
>would've required the same kind of prep you'd make to walk the Appalachian trail today

which takes ~6 months, not 12 fucking years. I can't believe I'm replying to this bait.

>>3003780
12 years by ship you fucking retard

>>3001026

The Romans solved this by splitting in to two seperate halves

>>3000172
Being this mad about a decent cartoon.

>>3003792
Technically speaking, the empire was never formally divided. It was merely a product of it having two emperors and that inadvertently spawning a second court and bureaucracy.

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>>3001026

>all those people who angrily responded not knowing it was a Civ joke

>>3003942
>R&R
>Decent

Actually slip at the top of the staircase.

>>3003770
it

>>3004093

Who the hells plays that game?

>>3001026
>you need a different civilization in order to trade for a profit

did your video games teach you this

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>>3003403
What is this nonsense?

>>3003744
>there were no boats in the time of the roman empire
what the hell is this board

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I'll just leave this here...

>>3006578
Boats only were developed a decade or two before the plane

>>3006670
Well that's an obvious jokester. Sometimes it feels like I'm the only poster on 4chan without autism.

>>3000103
please die

>>3001026
reminder that we share our board with these """"people""""
>>>/v/
>>>/b/
>>>/r/eddit

>>3000103
fucking kill yourself

>>3001026
top b8

>>3000103
Please go back to plebbit you absolute fucking plebian.

>>3000083
>aksum
>south arabian states
>india
>china

>>3000102
>russia
>18
AHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHSHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA

>>3004093
>I was only pretending to be retarded!

>>3003403

I hope you meant months. 12 years is a patently absurd amount of time, the Romans marched entire armies, complete with baggage trains and camp followers, across Europe in a fraction of that time.

>>3000103
reddit'de gediyorsun

>>3000083
Persia, India, Germania, the Baltics through the Amber Road, Sudan, Ethiopia, and China.

>>3006551
Hes making a joke about civ

>>3003403
Are you the same "Takes decades to sail to Sardinia" retard I saw back in June or July 2016.

>>3003584
ancients counted time differently first of all, so that many hours could easily be 12 years in the ancient mind, because their processing power was lower. second, most of europe was swamp and forest in those days and more rocks existed on the landscape before all the rocks were quarried in the 19th century to make cow fields. the death rate was too high on a journey anyway because mosquito kills people, so there'd be too few people to know the direction, so you'd inevitable get lost because when you get to a village you find that everyone there has only traveled 2 miles outside it in their whole life. all these conditions taken into account you arrive at a travel time of ten years at fastest, though i'd say 12 is more appropriate. as the other anon says too people were shorter, suffered from vitamin deficiency and had smaller pack animals, all making the journey require frequent resting and more pain than necessary