Social Structure In Ancient Rome

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It may seem that the problem of nature and resource will always play a part in the progress trap, since it’s usually the base of human’s survivability. But in a more complex and systemized civilization, the structure itself will threaten by the progress trap as well. Wright (2006) referred the structure of some bigger civilizations as pyramid schemes, due to the size of the society and how detailed the power was split between different classes. Out of many examples of pyramid schemes, one civilization stands out: Rome. From this point, our civilization is staring to slowly lift off from the trap of “losing control by the overuse of new techniques and method for surviving”, but now we have fallen into another similar trap, which is the “consequence …show more content…
Roma as one of the biggest civilization at the moment, and with a big scale of the realm come with a bigger scale of the cost of resource and labor power, and that’s where it meets its progress trap. There is no doubt that the resource only from one location is not enough to supply Roman Empire, thus, Rome has to constantly seek out need supplies. Social structure wise, it’s a pyramid scheme that constantly sending the resources up from the bottom of the society, and the higher tire classes usually get to enjoy the bigger chunk of the profit. However, as the size of the society increase there is no way to meet the demand with the resources from only one land, that’s when Rome extends this pressure onto its other colonies. According to Wright (2006), “As the empire impoverished the soils of southern Europe, Rome exported its environmental load to colonies, becoming dependent on rain from North Africa and the Middle East.”, this is indeed unsustainable way of progress, the pace of Rome’s progress is too fast that the empire has reach its hand to other