"<span>Workers receive higher wages" and "More people acquire jobs and earn wages" is the major reason why </span>consumption might increase during periods of economic growth.
The ítems that describe why consumption might increase during periods of economic growth are, workers receive higher wages, more people acquire jobs and earn wages, and the cost of borrowing money is lowered.
When economy is growing, the bussiness cycle is experiencing a boom. At that stage, everything but unemployment tends to rise. There is more jobs, more production, more people in work, more capital invested on production and wiges are also higher.
2. Plebeians would have objected to this expan- sion because they had to serve in the army. Defeated people would have objected because they had to serve in the army, pay Roman taxes, and couldn't always become Roman citizens.
I wouldn't really call Italy "helpful" but that's the only event that actually happened IRL. (unless you count D Day as an invasion of france.) and Italy is the only one here that's an actual ally of germany.