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• Title:
  Philosophy in action or the economic and social changes in the Barbaricum in the late Roman Iron Age and at the beginning of the Migration Period
• Creator:
  Gralak, Tomasz
• Description:
  The economy of the European Barbaricum was a dynamic system – variable in time and differentiated in terms of territory. In Central Europe's Early Roman Iron Age, a segmental society with an autarkic economy is visible. It is characterized by dispersed power, dispersed capital, and dispersed production. The primary means of production - arable land - were collectively owned. The factor that stimulated the changes was Roman influences. Another was limitations on agricultural production, leading to the Malthusian crises. With unfavorable climatic changes (cooling down), this led to a radical reorganization of agriculture. This was a reason for the creation of a strongly hierarchical community and the centralization of production. The consequence was also the concentration of power and capital.;
  The economy of the European Barbaricum was a dynamic system – variable in time and differentiated in terms of territory. In Central Europe’s Early Roman Iron Age, a segmental society with an autarkic economy is visible. It is characterized by dispersed power, dispersed capital, and dispersed production. The primary means of production – arable land – were collectively owned. The factor that stimulated the changes was Roman influences. Another was limitations on agricultural production, leading to the Malthusian crises. With unfavorable climatic changes (cooling down), this led to a radical reorganization of agriculture. This was a reason for the creation of a strongly hierarchical community and the centralization of production. The consequence was also the concentration of power and capital.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2025 Tomasz Gralak;
  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
• Date:
  2025.11.24
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
  Artykuł naukowy
• Language:
  Polish
• Source:
  Folia Praehistorica Posnaniensia; Vol. 30 (2025); 119-151;
  Folia Praehistorica Posnaniensia; Tom 30 (2025); 119-151;
  2450-5846;
  0239-8524
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań
• Relation: https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/fpp/article/view/46026/41188
• Subject:
  Barbaricum;
  Late Roman Iron Age;
  economy;
  capital;
  agriculture;
  Malthusian crisis
• Identifier: https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/fpp/article/view/46026
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
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  seek permission
• Type:
  text