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Explanation: Despite the tendency of powerful polities to denigrate everyone outside of the polity as living in some fundamentally deficient way, there is some truth in the Roman claim that the northern edges of Europe were somewhat... lacking in material comforts compared to the Mediterranean in Classical Antiquity, even for the common people.