Previously I was playing on Grepolis, and achieved some success in a large. Victory expansions can be bought with medals. Alternatively, players can pay diamonds instead. Ive only just begun to get into Forge of Empires, having started last week. Once unlocked, players must pay coins to place the expansion. For example, the first expansion will cost 10 medals, while the second costs 50, and so on. Also during the New Years event, we were able to trade Medals for random Blueprints. The number of medals used to unlock a 'victory expansion' increases the more of these expansions that have already been purchased (similar to forge point buying). Some owners of large farms even switched from growing staple grains to high-value crops, such as olives and grapes, or raising animals-this wouldn’t have been an option for small family farms. Medals can be used for purchasing Victory Expansions. The increased income from expansion supported development by creating demand for greater supplies of agricultural produce. Because of economies of scale and because enslaved people could be be made to work longer and harder than free Romans, this trend further increased economic production. Medals, in particular, can be traded to unlock victory expansions, which makes them a really important currency in the game. Further, it was common practice to enslave and sell war captives the increasing number of military conquests brought many enslaved people into the Italian peninsula. If they failed to return or their farms went bankrupt in their absence, wealthy Romans bought their land, creating larger and larger farms, known as latifundia.

As Rome fought more foreign wars, many small landholders were away serving in the military for longer periods. Like all ancient societies, Rome’s economy was based on agriculture, which was incredibly labor intensive.

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