2015年5月5日 · Chain stores became popular in the United States after World War II, when American soldiers came back from war, with a bent for "standardizing" society. In 1954, for instance, a veteran named Ray Kroc, who was working as a paper cup salesman, noted that the hamburger store of the McDonald Brothers did the same business as five ordinary outlets.

Ancient Rome definitely did not have conventional chain stores as we do today such as many grocery stores bearing the name Walmart, or many restaurants bearing the name McDonalds. Roman settlements relied heavily on the usage of their impressive forums to conduct trade amongst the masses of average citizens.

2025年1月10日 · Somewhere on the internet I found this picture, purporting to show what a part of the city of Rome looked like in the time of the Roman Empire.

2019年11月3日 · I know it's common for shops and stores to be named in D&D and other fantasy settings, but how common was that practice in the medieval era (say, from 1000 AD onward)? It seems to me that inns and the like were named more often than, say, the workshops of smiths, traders, or other craftsmen and merchants.

2015年1月18日 · Chain mail could tend to be heavier and would concentrate most of the weight on the shoulders, while plate mail would distribute the weight a little more evenly and could be broken into sections. However, the big advantage of chain mail was that it distributes force more efficiently and it could provide better protection against piercing ...

Listening to stories from relatives, it sounds like it was a near-universal practice (in the US, before the 1970s) to wrap retail purchases with brown paper and twine. Searching for information ab...

2014年10月19日 · One theory is that the early kingdom period was actually a period of Etruscan domination which the Roman mythmakers (whose work is reflected in Livy) later reworked as the tale of the Tarquinian dynasty.

What evidence is there for chain stores or restaurant chains in Ancient Rome? 8 Was there a time when it was easier for slaves than citizens to access state-sponsored medical facilities in Ancient Rome?

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2016年11月21日 · Just for example, 8 years old boy or 9 years old girl. So, not a newborn baby or toddler (no need for extended expenses for dedicated child-rearing nannies, wet nurses, etc.), but still too small t...