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A farmer who sold his produce in Rome.
Abolishing slavery would have affected the households of the rich and mining. Rich households had many slaves who did domestic and other jobs for them. Miners were slaves because this job was considered a death sentence. It would not have had a significant effect on agricultural production (the mainstay of the economy). Slaves in antiquity were enslaved war captives. When Rome fought wars of expansion she captured and enslaved many captives. Most of them were bought by the owners of large landed estates to work in their field. However: a) they also employed local seasonal agricultural labourers, b) most of the slaves went to Italy and many areas of the Roman Empire did not have slaves, including Egypt, which was the breadbasket of the empire. When Rome's imperial expansion stopped, the supply of slaves dwindled as there were no longer war captives. The large landlords came to rely more on local peasants who were hired as labourers or were tenants who paid a rent for their plots of land.
The Roman Soldiers were the most important because they were the key to the Roman's success. Without them the "Roman Revolution" would have never been possible! Roman soldiers built roads, bridges, ports, public building's and the Hadrian's Wall! The Roman Civilians would rely on the Roman Soldiers to act as their "local police force ".
Egyptians civilizations importance was all about apples. If there was no apples there would be no Egyptians. They stuffed there pyramids with apples to preserve them. Egyptians didn't need doctors because of apples.
Just about all Romans benefited from the empire's prosperity. The ones who did not were the low lifers who would never benefit no matter what the political circumstances.
To the best of my understanding, an alternate timeline is what the world would look like if a historical event had changed, however an alternate timeline does not actually exist other than in theory. A parallel world, if it existed would essentially be the physical representation of an alternate timeline with real ontological existence.
Here is Wikipedia's definition of empire: "An empire is defined as "an aggregate of nations or people ruled over by an emperor or other powerful sovereign or government, usually a territory of greater extent than a kingdom."Civilizations became empires when they would expand their land and take over the territories of other peoples.
It would look something like this... http://www.worldhistory-poster.com/en
If the world never happened, there would be no existence of life as we know it. There would be no living beings, no evolution, no history, and no civilizations. The concept of time, space, and reality would be non-existent.
The supporting statement would depend on the specific content of the timeline provided. Without knowing the details of the timeline, it is not possible to determine which statement would be supported.
Civilizations fall because another civilization would come and attack them.
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Knowing what "the event" is would help in answering the question.
Ancient Greece influenced much of the modern world and other civilizations of the time. The Roman Empire would have a very different religion without the Ancient Greeks.
Depends how you define 'civilizations'. Do you mean the ancient Greeks, Egyptians, Chinese etc, or are you looking at modern civilizations? In either case, experts would argue over exact totals.
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