 The products of the land were allocated to his Roman subjects that worked it, giving to the Lombards a third ("tertia") of crops.The proceeds were not given to individuals but to the family, which administered them in the halls (a term still used in the Italian toponymy).The economic system of late antiquity, which focused on large estates worked by peasants in semi-servile condition, was not revolutionized, but modified only to benefit the new rulers.