Pyranze t1_iyzfdv4 wrote on December 5, 2022 at 9:19 AM

Reply to comment by mglyptostroboides in Why Roman Egypt was such a strange province by oni64

I think they meant that the Romans introduced their versions of these things to those areas which would better integrate them into the Empire as a whole, whereas Egypt already had institutions and infrastructure that the Romans could use without issue.

Edit: re-reading it, I'm pretty sure that's what they meant. They said "the Egyptians already had [list of stuff] that worked" so I assume they meant the stuff worked for the Romans.

mglyptostroboides t1_iyzfzp4 wrote on December 5, 2022 at 9:28 AM

Ah! That changes a lot. I parsed that as "[things] and and economy that worked]". As if the "that worked" was referring to just the economy not the rest of the things they listed.