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The same way people do today except at a much more basic level. They owned their own businesses, had stalls on markets. Examples of some jobs are tavern/shop owner, slave, gladiator, fisherman. It was rare for a woman to have a job unless she was a prostitute.

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because some of them were farmers and with the things they grew and sold they lived a pretty good life

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because most of them were farmers, they kept and sold crops which gave them a pretty good lifestyle

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They usually made money in the forum.

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