Are you counting the Eastern Empire? There's an argument that our view of “Rome” is obnoxiously Eurocentric. The economic lifeblood of the Empire was mostly outside of Western Europe, and lots of wheat from Egypt.
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Cow tools would have amazing collector's value, though, and you could put the cows to work for the price of hay.
I remember newspaper machines used to have have boxes with the day's paper. You'd put a few coins in, open the box, and take one paper from the stack. I imagine that was also an available resource for merchandise for re-sale.
I hear people in Argentina are hard-selling socks in the street, too, so the tradition is still alive.
Meanwhile, Kevin:
En ingles decimos "police involved fruitable".
That's right: my portmanteau implies that tomato is a vegetable. Fight me.
It's called "the husband stitch" becase because it was done for the husbands pleasure, not for the wife's medical needs, often without the wife's consent. It also might cause sex to be more painful for the woman, even as it was more pleasurable for the man; which is too bad for the woman, because her husband had a legal right to rape her in the United States until the 1970s.
Hilarious. Press has gotten so bad for Microsoft they're stooping to this, which is only Streisand-effecting.