(1)Kyunghyang Shinmun
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(1)The movie ‘Gladiator’
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(2)Appearing in ‘Poompeii: Doomsday’
(3)All Roman gladiators had strong muscular bodies.
(4)I love it. But what kind of diet did the actual Roman gladiators live?
(5)If you look at the records written in the argument, you will see beans and barley; Eat a lot of garlic
(6)There is data showing that there is no meat, but there are almost no records showing that there is no meat oil.
(7)C: Gladiators ate barley, which the Romans at the time did not often eat.
(8)Just because you eat it
(9)Meaning ‘people who eat barley’
(10)’Horde
(11)It was also called ‘Ari’.
In ancient times, population density was sufficiently low.
Barley was also eaten by the lower class or used as horse feed.
The stock was wheat
After the Middle Ages, the population increased and agricultural production increased.
Population is growing faster than agricultural production
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Even barley has been upgraded to a mid-grade grain.
The lower class began to make bread from rye, which had a lower status than barley.
※Wheat is considered a premium grain and is mercilessly exploited through taxes.
The nobles had a monopoly
The commoners of Western Europe started eating wheat bread because they began to exploit Eastern Europe.
Eastern Europeans exported wheat to Western Europe, and Eastern European serfs ate rye bread.
It was a bizarre pre-modern history in which agricultural technology advanced but the low point actually declined.