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So Ancient Rome didn't really have a very diverse crop package despite its many achievements. So I've been thinking on how might one be able to introduce new crops into the state, and what impacts such a thing might have.

To that end, is there any way we might be able to introduce crops such as rice, citrus fruits, almonds and yams? And (this is probably a huge stretch) but the possibility of introducing Mangos, sugar, and soybeans into the empire at some point?

I figure the yams and (sahelian) rice would require an earlier introduction of the camel to start the trans-saharan trade network centuries earlier, but I'm not sure about the others.

What impacts might we see in this, aside from the obvious population boom that comes with raiding agricultural production? Could one see greater urbanization? Larger field armies as logistics ease up from more transportable food? A shift in the importance of various provinces as new breadbaskets are opened up? A sugar craze? New medicine?

Mostly spitballing here.
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