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A great landed estate (as in ancient Italy or in eastern Europe before World War I) often held by an absentee owner and typically employing servile or semiservile labor and primitive agricultural techniques.

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  • Vast ranches called latifundia which ran on slave labor had come into being, thus depriving free men of employment.
  • Thanks in large measure to the latifundia economy.
  • Who would dare challenge the owners of those latifundia?
  • Those latifundia were enormous; some had 200,000 hectares.
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