The Migration Of Rome A Major Event During The...

 ¬Hunter James Professor Bauchanan HIST151 3 October 2016 Intellectual Migration Migration to Rome was a major event during the Principate, and times surrounding it that opened up many job opportunities, future plans, and brighter futures. Laurens Tacoma’s analysis of migration will give a better understanding of how many intellectuals were flowing through Rome at the time. There were many things that came along with being an intellectual, thus ranging from being a low paid philosopher, or being paid very generously being a doctor. There were many groups of migrants that flocked to Rome during this time in search of a better job and living conditions to put hope to their dreams. In close relation with the intellectuals was the education that was provided by the intellectuals to enhance the knowledge of future men to have them get better jobs within their profession. There were about one million total people in Rome during this time, Laurens Tacoma’s numbers were very iffy as there are no permanent, set in stone data. Maintaini ng education throughout the big cities and producing high learning men was a priority especially for young men trying to gain the higher education. Laurens Tacoma’s analysis of migration during this time for intellectuals is as follows. With being back in such a far time period, and having not much but old paper documents to go off of the intellectual migration to Rome was about 1,000 – 5,000 people. The number is so little as they only stayed for