New Technology In Rome's Warring Society
Rome was a warring society who economy was based on expansion, plundering and eventually trading and living in the areas over which their armies had expanded Rome's control. Rome never got beyond the small shop concept of manufacturing, so this limited their adoption of technology. Artisans and craftsmen had little opportunity or use for new technology beyond what they worked with in the course of their making goods. Since there never was a factory system in the Empire, there were no owners who would have enjoyed a monetary gain from new technology.Technology was limited to the existing or traditional tech and no one was looking to make, say, a faster loom or quicker method to make pots and pans. The only tech that interested them would have