Economic Perspectives on the Baetica in the Time of Augustus
Abstract
G. Julius Caesar began a deep transformation of all structures of the Empire and paid special attention to this land, which he knew well and whose wealth and previous development expected to be especially useful for him. For this reason, he started an administrative reorganization and economic development process that was continued by his successor Augustus, who made of this land, the basis of production of exportable wealth –silver mainly– that allowed him to develop a high level policy within the consortium of nations through the Eurasian continent. The world was totally different since then. In this paper we analyze how such a process deeply affected the socio-economic transformation of this new Baetican province that, after some time, would rightly be the first to give a non-Italian emperor to Rome.
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