Imagine that you are the young Roman general Scipio Aemilianus who destroyed Carthage in the Third Punic War. Write a letter bac
k to the Roman Senate declaring a victory, and explaining what you have to the city and its inhabitants. Explain that Rome will now be forever safe of its greatest enemy.
It was faster and cost less. It made the population grow and it caused modernization. But it also had environmental hazards and it was sometimes dangerous.
