The United States is the modern day equivalent of the Roman Empire. The United states and the Roman Empire had many similar issues such as inflation, starvation, and unemployment.
Both the United States and the Roman empire needed money. As you can see in this article http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/hr.asp?fpVname=AL_BN&ref_pge=gal&b_pge=1 that the US relies on Federal funding. The United States, however is in a massive debt already to China and simply does not have enough money to pay for everything to function as well as it could. As a result the United States prints out more money and inflation occurs. The romans had this problem as well. Whenever the romans needed more money the simply made more coins. Then inflation occurred and the romans money became almost worthless as well.
The romans and the Americans also struggled with their farms. Almost all of our food comes from farms. In this article you can read about a farmer expanding his farm http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/hr.asp?fpVname=AL_AS&ref_pge=gal&b_pge=1. Farmers in the United States are the core to our civilization and yet we disregard them so highly. Without farms we could not survive but yet we over tax them and a result drive farms out of business. This results in a lack of food and people go hungrier easier. People cant afford to buy healthy food and turn to less healthy alternatists such as cheep McDonald food. The Romans also had a lack of food. Rome had these massive armies that needed to eat constantly. As a result Rome gave almost all of their food to them and many of their civiliians went hungry. Both Rome and the United states struggle to keep all of their citizens fully fed and healthy.
Romans and Americans also struggled with unemployment and jobs. As you can see from this article America has many unemployed workers. http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/hr.asp?fpVname=AL_OAN&ref_pge=gal&b_pge=1 Ever since the stock market crashed in the US mainly Americans don't have jobs. Rome's main job was a solder. The problem was after you became a soldier and you returned to your land you would see that there would be somebody new living there since you were away and could not deffend your property. This resulted in many homeless people. Both the Romans and the Americans sufferd from unemployed homeless people.
The united states and rome had to deal with many similiar problems such as inflation, starvation, and unemployment. Because each of our great civilizations have similar issues i agree that it would be fare to classify them as the modern day equivalent of the Roman Empire.
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