Roman legion

connecting them together, having strong army force, and dividing up their land into legions. The people of Rome began to make laws to abide by, educate the children growing up, and following Christianity and other views of their beliefs. Rome succeeded for quite some time nearly around 500 years of control, until finally falling and leaving behind traces of their expansion and techniques of ways of living. The Roman Army is considered one of the most strongest of men to this day. The earliest…

empires is an extremely relevant topic today, since the movements of past empires have formed the communities and governments of the modern world. Two such empires being the Khmer Empire, which governed from 802CE to the end of the 15th Century and the Roman Empire, which ruled from 27 BC to around 1453 CE. Through the evidence shown it will be proven that all empires rise and fall for a range of reasons, including strategic governing, gaining and losing territory, the climate and rulers making…

Fortunately for the Romans, the Romans were able to obtain ballistae as spoils of war after making the Greek city-states a part of the Roman Republic and once again borrowing from the Greeks. Although they took the Greek ballistae as their own, they were not just copycats. The Romans were able to develop them into much smaller versions that were more easily carried and lighter in weight that also had improved accuracy by 25% . This new improved ballista was able to give the Romans an advantage…

government or emperor holds sufficient authority to control politics, military, religions and so forth. And a variety of rules built the direct centralized authority to concentrate the power, such as the Qin Dynasty and the Umayyad Empire. As for the Roman Empire, Augustus used a lot of indirect methods to satisfy people’s needs and his power at the same time. The main difference between them is that Augusts hid his desire of absolute power under the outward republicanism. People may not find…

his conquest against Rome. In 216BCE Rome appointed two consuls, Gaius Terenitus Varro and Lucius Amelius Paullus. Instead of commanding separate armies, Varro and Paullus were forced by the Roman senate to combine their separate forces into one penultimate force. They commanded eight enlarged roman legions made up of approximately 5,000 infantry and 300 cavalry as opposed to the more traditional 4,000 infantry and 200 horse. Once the allied forces of Rome are taken into account, Varro and…

Caesar’s assassination and the fall of the Roman Republic. At Caesar’s assassination, the 500-year-old republic was severely destabilised in a series of civil wars, executions and political conflict. Caesar was reportedly stabbed 23 times by approximately 60 members of the Republic Senate, who had feared his growing power and recent title of dictator. By the act of sharing the guilt of his death among them, the assailants believed they had saved the Roman Republic, when in fact they had actually…

how they made a difference in history. Julius Caesar was a Roman politician. As for, Malcolm X he was a human rights activist. Both of them can be compared by both of them being assassinated. Another reason is both of their father's passed away when they were at a very young age. Julius Caesar was a Roman Politcian. Caesar was born on July 13, 100 BC, Rome, Italy and was assassinated on March 15, 44 BC, Rome, Italy. Caesar wrote a Roman history in Greek about 143 BC. Caesar has been maried…

with Carthage building up a great empire in the Spanish peninsula, expecting to raise new armies to invade Italy. The second Punic war was a conflict of a military Carthaginian genius called Hannibal against Rome, and later shared with the young Roman general Scipio, who effectively offset Carthage’s looting of Italy and its allies. In 221 B.C. Hasdrubal, the Carthaginian general that founded New Carthage in the Iberian Peninsula and prone at diplomatic solutions, was assassinated…

eventual falling apart. Historians have been discussing many reasons which caused the falling of the Roman Empire, the one that used to stretch in a vast territory in the Mediterranean, from the British Isles down…

Many Emperors during the Roman Empire ruled with power. They used the military force to keep their subjects under control by instilling fear in the people. However, not every Roman Emperor ruled through power. Trajan, the emperor from 98-117, ruled through a combination of benevolent acts and decisive action. He used the power of the military to expand the borders of the empire and fix inflation, but he designed and promoted policies to improve the living conditions and job opportunities of the…