人口社会构成的变化与早期罗马帝国的经济繁荣

The Change of Social Composition of Populationand Economical Flourishment in Early Roman Empire

人口社会构成对于社会的经济发展起着重要的作用，古罗马人口社会构成的变化是促成早期罗马帝国经济繁荣的重要因素之一。古罗马早期的社会经济特色是自给自足的农牧经济，后来由于一系列的对外战争与扩张，促使其生产者的社会构成发生变化，主要生产者由以前的罗马公民农民变为外籍奴隶，这些奴隶多来自文化技术水平较高的地区，他们被广泛使用在各行各业，促进了意大利生产技术和生产效率的提高，为帝国的繁荣作出了积极的贡献。

The social Composition of Population plays an important part in the economic development of asociety.The change of the social composition of population in ancient Rome was one of the important factorswhich facilitated economic flourishment of early Roman Empire.The feature of the social economy in earlyRome was a self-sufficient economy of agriculture and animal husbandry.Because the Romans committed a se-ries of wars and expansion,the social composition of Roman producers changed,the main producers of Romansociety became foreign slaves instead of Roman citizen peasants.Most of these slaves came from the parts ofhigher technology and culture.They worked in all kinds of professions,so the production technology and effi-ciency in Italy were improved.They made an active contribution to early Roman flourishment.