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- robertacionThe last paragraph is a reference to Cato the Elder. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthago_delenda_est"As a third and final action point, I am of the opinion that Carthage must be destroyed."
- whywouldyoucarehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_TestaccioIt is 35 metres high now, 20,000 or so m^2, after 1500 years, and composed of ancient pottery fragments (the trade went sharply down after the 5th century A.D.)Caesar reports of a wall more than 20 km long, several meters high, with a canal in front of it, constructed by a legion or two, I don't remember now exactly, in two weeks time. Maybe an exaggeration, but..And the real question for me, is how they managed to do the logistics, with just the Roman numbers.. So the economical complexity should not be such a surprise, I suppose.
- zorminoI'm curious if that third factor is just geography
- ianbookerThey really do a lot to correct for bias, but is it enough?I would suspect that a prosperous and thereby complex economy also has more resource to discover or document inscriptions. While they talk about researcher bias, they do not really mitigate this.And yes, I searched the article and the extensive additional material.Still a valuable contribution.
- robotomirSo they estimate economic complexity by the number of discovered Latin documents or inscriptions. Wasn't Greek prevalent in the East?
- AcerbicZeroCarthago delenda est.
- geniiumWanted to read more on this
- esafakFor current info see https://oec.world/https://atlas.hks.harvard.edu/
- db48xServer died already?
- KaseyKimimpressive
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