Explain how the freedom of serfs lead to a lower standard of living?

another answer from our community: let us first explain the meaning of "eternal truth" which is tomean, continuing forever or indefinitely. this being the case itcannot be changed, for truth is truth no matter what changes aremade to the structure of its explanation. however, as for religeons changin… (more)

first, the romans stayed isolated because they had to defend their own territories from neighboring cities that were harassing them, like the etruscans. second, once the romans managed to defeat their neighbors, and started to expand their territory, they started to build roads and bridges. finally, now that the romans have covered their territory with roads functioning as highways, they could mobilize their legions faster to assemble larger military units in a specific place