Roman Army

The Roman army was the key to the supremacy of the small town between the Palatine and the Capitol. This dates from the monarchist era, suffered major changes during the republic, was the most impressive and imposing during the high empire finally produced the crisis under empire. This shows that the Roman army was not always of a particular mode, it also responds to questions from us because in many texts, for example, varies in number of legions, or the number varies because of the organization. This is because a number of people , as Servius Tullius , Camilo , Gaius Marius , Julius Caesar, Augustus, and others , who made his great contribution to forge what was the center of Roman power .
While we remember, we must mention that Rome was the only ancient empire that had a fixed army (only from the republic) plus trained in schools (from Mario), with fixed number of organizations and ranges (from Servius Tullius and Camille). Initially, in the Roman city Heptarchy, the army was made of only the patricians citizens. Thus the patricians were divided into 30 curiae. Each curia had to contribute 100 men, these were known as "Milities" as they were infantry. In addition, each curia had to contribute at least 10 other men to form the cavalry, called "Decury" composed of 10 riders called Celeres. The supreme command of the whole army was king. The royalist army was not permanent, they were recruited only in spring and dissolved in autumn, because the priests considered that it was disrespectful to combat in winter months.
Servius Tullius, second Etruscan king, was a general who reformed the entire Roman army, reorganized the town, discarding the curiae, and reorganizing the centurios, each of 100 people. Tullius also accepted the plebei...

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... crossed over into the conflict landscape, his confidence and courage were already enhanced by disciplina, physical and technical training, good diet, medical support, fellowship, status and place within a military tradition, and the favour of the gods (Coulston 2013).’ Clearly the Roman army was one of the powerful, organized and advanced of its time. This should not be a surprise. After all, Rome made great advances and has won an important place in history.

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