The Roman Military Machine

Roman soldiers were fighting men, first and foremost. Constant and rigorous training kept them at peak conditions, and ready for action at any time.

In the mid-Republic each Roman legion had an equivalent complement of allied infantry equipped and modeled after the legion and a three times larger complement of cavalry. The army of the Late Republic and Early to Mid-Empire consisted of legionaries and auxiliaries. The auxiliaries were named so after the earlier allied complement, but with structure and equipment differing from the legionaries. They were non-Roman citizens, recruited mostly from the Roman provinces with less pay than the legionaries, but at the end of their service they would be granted Roman citizenship. In the Late Roman army the distinction was between comitatenses, reserve troops and limitanei, border troops.

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[gamerx262x262x]

PHD does not mean a thing. My sister has a doctorate and she is the biggest dummy I know.

[TheSympathize]

lol what a troll. How old are you anyways? don't you know Spartans killed infants if they found the slightest sign of physical deformities? A grown man has least lived through some of his years, but throwing a baby to its death based on the opinion of the baby's physique is even worse

[GREECE SUMMER]

Fuck you Roman you steal everything from the GREEKS

[pipenissen]

LOLolol if you ever studied only a few pages of classic history, you would know that there were no moslems around at the time. Mohammad was born 600 years later FYI

[bicnicky]

I "got" a PHD? I can tell a bullshit artist when I see one.

[NerysTudor]

Assholes ! The fuckin lot of em! They are responsible for all the worst deeds ever done in the world!and don't forget they were on the Nazis side in the war! Then they become great at being Mafia killers in America! Nobody wants to be Italian that are because they are genocidal mass murderers even Hitler copied them!fat ugly shortasses ! Evil tempers screaming yelling women ! And that Pope king of pedophiles! Kiss his ring his ass eat his shit lowlife..!

[NerysTudor]

What shit here showing off a bunch of murderous Italian bastards that went on a rampage all over the world including Great Britain ! I hate them and everything they did and still do! Italian women HO yea! Seen housewives of New Jersey??bitches then they got so weak they fell into the Christian laps and cowardly became Christians and slaughtered the whole world again to this day Bastards!! In the name of he whom they slaughtered!

[Mark Farren]

What are you talking about? They Byzantines? Well the Roman Empire was a shadow of it's former self if Caesar faced the Muslims he would have raped them.

[99hockeynhl]

no what i mean that is christianity never fell to islam