How were olives and olive oil important to the growth of Rome?

Olive oil was an all-purpose and essential product in the Roman world from 2nd century BC. Not only were olives and olive oil an important part of the Mediterranean diet and cooking process (and still are, of course) but the oil produced from pressed olives was also used for many other purposes.

Explanation:

deists, human beings can know god only via reason and the observation of nature, but not by revelation or by supernatural manifestations (such as miracles

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