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Weapons of a Roman Soldier **Roman soldiers had many different kinds of weapons used in battle. If you are chosen to be a Roman soldier in Ancient Rome, you must know all of the weapons that they use if you are to survive. Aquaducts      Roads   Weapons  Colosseum  Augustus Slaves Home **
 * Roman soldiers wore chain mail, scale armor, and segmented armor which was mounted on leather.
 *  The chain mail provided the soldiers with the best protection because they could still move around while wearing it due it's great flexibility.
 *  The Hastati was the very first line in battle, so members of this line wore breastplates on top of all of the other armor they wore.
 *  Each soldier had a short sword which was about 60 centimeters long and a long javelin.
 *  A pugio is was a small dagger that the soldiers used for stabbing their enemies that were nearby.
 *  The spatha was a long sword. Many soldiers carried one of these as well.
 *  <span style="color: #fdfcfc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #050505;">The scorpio was a common weapon. It was basically a crossbow used for shooting arrows at enemies from a distance.
 * <span style="color: #f6912c; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace; background-color: #62f463;"> <span style="color: #fdfcfc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #050505;">A catapulta was a machine that threw javelins very far.
 * <span style="color: #f6912c; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace; background-color: #62f463;"> <span style="color: #fdfcfc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #050505;">A pilum is just a special kind of javelin. The only difference is that the pilum bends once it is thrown so that it can not be reused by anybody.
 * <span style="color: #f6912c; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace; background-color: #62f463;"> <span style="color: #fdfcfc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #050505;">The hasta was a very long spear that acts in a way very similar to javelins.
 * <span style="color: #f6912c; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace; background-color: #62f463;"> <span style="color: #fdfcfc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #050505;">We still use many of these weapons today in the modern world. We have probably made them more advanced, but the general idea of our weapons came from the ancient weapons.