Are you counting the Eastern Empire? There's an argument that our view of “Rome” is obnoxiously Eurocentric. The economic lifeblood of the Empire was mostly outside of Western Europe, and lots of wheat from Egypt.
schipelblorp
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It's called "the husband stitch" becase because it was done for the husbands pleasure, not for the wife's medical needs, often without the wife's consent. It also might cause sex to be more painful for the woman, even as it was more pleasurable for the man; which is too bad for the woman, because her husband had a legal right to rape her in the United States until the 1970s.
Sutton Hoo mecha made with Ulfbehrt steel. Unstoppable.