Tax collection in Rome was very interesting process.

What you would have is Tax Collection agencies would bid for the right from Rome to be the tax collector in a certain region.

@Nemets Just roman rebel states, their local identities had been displaced much earlier.

The winning bid would become Rome's tax collection for itself

Then the tax collectors would try to profit by collecting more taxes from the inhabitants than they had paid to rome

That was the business model

During late antiquities they always seemed to be making new offices and titles while simultaneously making both the Eastern and Western emperors more high and mighty

@Nemets interesting, I didn't know that

I wonder if that's been a norm for a long time

@Nemets how did tax farming lead to opium growing?

Weird

During the Empire, oneof my college profs told us of a letter from a city in Anatolia (modern day Turkey) that was from the governor asking for permission to start a fire department, it took him about a year to get a 'no' because the emperor thought it was dangerous to organize people like that, I forgot who it was excatly. This was peak centralization and inefficiency.

@Nemets Get in

@Nemets probably

basically diversity correlates with anything that sucks

Fast forward to late antiquity and the wealthy land owners run the show despite the high and mighty emperors. This was because during the crisis of the third century, the empire switched towards manoralism, which is where people had to try to produce evrything they needed close by because trade broke down. This was a preview of the dark ages, and a serf class, the colonii began.

more diversity = more suck
this is science

I don't see color, but I see enough color to want diversity - my friend

@Nemets they don't understand American.

I only see one color: the human color

NEMETS IS IN VOICE?

White is the absence of color

I don't see color, because I only look at white people

But then you'd see lots of color

RED HAIR, BLONDE HAIR, BLACK HAIR,BLUE EYES, BROWN EYES, GREEN EYES

Ahhhh

I don't see color and race doesn't matter but there's a problem with all these white people

@Selma sorry I only look at blondes

What's 🅱 oppin Cali gang

I guess the only color I see is a bit of blue

Nemets actually doesn't know anything about genetics its all a ruse

CA gang

The switch to cavalry based armies in late antiquity affected the social structure too, you need large tracts of land to feed horses, which made the land owners more important. Before cavalry had supported the infantry, then it flipped. During early Byzantium, the Bucarii were basically feudal warbands which loyal nobles provided the Emperor, and consisted almost entirely of cavalry.

Emperor Claudius tried to restore the Senate to something more than a rubber stamp body, and they immediately reverted to that after he died.

You must be this white to enter

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23.3% white god bless you boys

@fgtveassassin dude he's the premier expert on Bantus

she is very hwite

the blonde girl is supposedly Syrian