In the mid-1st century, Rome was trading one amphora of this for one slave from Gaul
The Greek geographer Strabo (1st 
century CE) records how an enormous slave trade resulted from the collapse of 
the... [DOC] [TLE] Wine and Rome [PAR] In it, he discusses the production of wine on large slave-based villa estates, ... (In 
part, the wine trade with Gaul was so extensive because its inhabitants, ... to 
Rome until, by the first century BC, the city had approximately one million 
inhabitants.