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What were the consequences of the rise of the large estates?

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Privileged Romans who possessed latifundia had sufficient cash-flow to improve their harvests and domesticated animals with new strains, putting laborer smallholders in a difficult spot. Subsequently latifundia essentially displaced the little homestead as the normal agrarian unit in Italy and in the areas by the third century promotion.

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