What does tax collecting do for an empire?

answer:

in the early days of the roman republic, public taxes consisted of modest assessments on owned wealth and property. these modest taxes were levied against land, homes and other real estate, slaves, animals, personal items and monetary wealth.

it affected it because the kingdoms (with trade) slowly got richer and richer.

“the iliad” (gr: “iliás”) is an epic poem by the ancient greek poet homer, which recounts some of the significant events of the final weeks of the trojan war and the greek siege of the city of troy (which was also known as ilion, ilios or ilium in ancient times).