Institution
Latifundium
A latifundium was a large agricultural estate in the Roman world, typically owned by a wealthy landowner and worked by enslaved labour or tenants. Such estates spread in Italy and the provinces as wealth became concentrated after Roman conquests. They are commonly associated with the decline of small farmers and with social tensions in the Roman Empire.
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