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Answers how did early romans use the information gathered in the census to begin their republic? in what ways has our democracy evolved from these beginnings? in what ways has it deviated?

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Answers how did early Romans use the information gathered in the census to begin their republic? The Romans would take census and study which groups of people were they working with, were they predominately Jewish? Pagan? etc They would often adapt and use some of their ways to entice them into the Roman Empire. For example some pagans worshiped the sun God. Often the Romans would do certain ceremonies on Sunday to entice them to be interested and follow the Romans. If you study the demographics of a population and incorporate some of their beliefs into whatever your promoting its an excellent way to entice people to at least listen to what your promoting and give it a try. I think we still do these type of studies today on many subjects and its often how people sell certain types of products to certain demographics that are more prone to buy it. We don't take census far as all of us gathering to a place to state our comments but there are many studies done in areas over the internet and even private studies done where you do go somewhere and participate in it. I think we deviated in only the fact that more studies are done now especially from census to make someone money. Like if an area is heavy Hispanic then products that are geared toward them will sell better in that particular area where another area that has 1% Hispanic population might not sell a lot of product compared to say New Mexico that is heavily populated with Hispanics. Its not just general info anymore to improve a population. Not that its a bad thing, money is good but we should use it to improve society as a whole while making money from the info.