- The soldiers
- If you needed to attack someone they would do it
- The "police"
- or army
- divided into two section
- one legion is 5000 people
- They didn't get paid
- They wanted to do it to defend there country
- Century:
- 80 people
- Infantry
- soldiers on foot marching
- "ground troops"
- Cavalry:
- men on horse back
- If they could shoot on a horse you were really talented
Punic Wars
- Carthage vs. Rome
- 3 wars
- Rome won all
- First was trying to win Cecily
- Second with Hannibal riding on elephants
- idea was to go up and down the peninsula, but could never get to Rome
- Never knew that Carthage was coming in from the north
- If Carthage won, it would have been the end of the Roman Empire
- Third was Romans attacks Carthage
- Latifundia:
- A huge estate of farms that people buy
- Farmers can't cope, they are low on hope, so they move to Rome
- Gracchus brothers:
- Rich are getting richer
- Poor are getting poor
- Came up with a reasonable solution
- Give some land back
- The law got passed
- Senate got made and beat Tibirius to death with a chair and threw his body in the river
- People buy up family farms
- Made chickens have bigger breasts as a way to get more money
- But for the chicken that isn't fair
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