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34 - Military technology.
Military technology. The Roman military technology ranged from personal equipment and armament to deadly siege engines. Foot soldier. Weaponry. The pilum (javelin) was a weapon favored by…
33 - Transportation.
Transportation. Roads. The Romans primarily built roads for their military. Their economic importance was probably also significant, although wagon traffic was often banned from the roads to…
32 - Waterworks.
Waterworks. Sanitation. The Romans did not invent plumbing or toilets but instead borrowed their waste disposal system from their neighbors, particularly the Minoans. A waste disposal system was…
31 - Engineering and construction.
Engineering and construction. Wood. The Romans created fireproof wood by coating the wood with alum. Stone. It was ideal to mine stones from quarries that were situated as close to the site of…
30 - Ancient Roman technology.
Ancient Roman technology. Ancient Roman technology is the collection of techniques, skills, methods, processes, and engineering practices which supported Roman civilization and made possible the…
29 - Collapse in the West and survival in the East (395–476 AD).
Collapse in the West and survival in the East (395–476 AD). The non-federated mobile field army, known as the comitatenses, was eventually split into a number of smaller field armies: a central…
28 - Comitatenses and limitanei (284–395 AD).
Comitatenses and limitanei (284–395 AD). A distinction between frontier guard troops and more mobile reserve forces had emerged with the use of certain troops to permanently man frontiers such as…
27 - The army during the decline of the Empire.
The army during the decline of the Empire. Barbarisation of the army (117–253 AD). By the time of the emperor Hadrian the proportion of Italians in the legions had fallen to just ten percent and…
26 - The army at the height of the Empire.
The army at the height of the Empire. Imperial legions and reformation of the auxilia (27 BC – 117 AD). By the turn of the millennium, Emperor Augustus' primary military concern was to prevent…
25 - Marian legion (107–27 BC).
Marian legion (107–27 BC). Modern historiography has regularly cast Marius as abolishing the propertied militia and replacing it with landless soldiers motivated largely by pay. This belief emerges…
24 - Professionalisation during the Republican period.
Professionalisation during the Republican period. Manipular legion (315–107 BC). The army of the early Republic continued to evolve, and although there was a tendency among Romans to attribute such…
23 - Early Roman army.
Early Roman army. Tribal forces (c. 752 BC – c. 578 BC). According to the historians Livy and Dionysius of Halicarnassus, writing at a far later date, the earliest Roman army existed in the 8th…
22 - Structural history of the Roman military.
Structural history of the Roman military. The structural history of the Roman military concerns the major transformations in the organization and constitution of ancient Rome's armed forces, "the…
21 - Roman Kingdom, part 3.
Roman Kingdom, part 3. Servius Tullius. Priscus was succeeded by his son-in-law Servius Tullius, Rome's second king of Etruscan birth, and the son of a slave. Like his father-in-law, Servius fought…
20 - Roman Kingdom, part 2.
Roman Kingdom, part 2. Senate. According to legend, Romulus established the Senate after he founded Rome by personally selecting the most noble men (wealthy men with legitimate wives and children)…
19 - Roman Kingdom, part 1.
Roman Kingdom, part 1. The Roman Kingdom, also known as the Roman monarchy and the regal period of ancient Rome, was the earliest period of Roman history, when the city and its territory were ruled…
18 - Natale di Roma.
Natale di Roma. Natale di Roma (or 'Birthday of Rome') is an annual festival held in Rome on April 21 to celebrate the legendary founding of the city. According to legend, Romulus is said to have…
17 - Romulus and Remus.
Romulus and Remus. In the best known form of the legend, Romulus and Remus are the grandsons of Numitor, the king of Alba Longa. After Numitor is deposed by his brother Amulius and his daughter Rhea…
16 - Ancient tradition and founding myths.
Ancient tradition and founding myths. By the late Republic, the usual Roman origin myth held that their city was founded by a Latin named Romulus on the day of the Parilia Festival (21 April) in…
15 - Archaeological evidence.
Archaeological evidence. There is archaeological evidence of human occupation of the area of modern Rome from at least 5,000 years ago, but the dense layer of much younger debris obscures any…
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