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Without the hard work of many roman soldiers rome's empire may not have been so large just like soldiers today, they had a very important job. Only men could join the army for rome, if a man decided to join he would have to surve for 25 years. The soldiers had various other jobs besides to fight ememies like constructing buildings for the emporer, making forts, and built and maintained the roadways. As for the soldier's attire they wore, a kilt mad eof strips of leather, military sandals with leather straps, cloaks or capes called lacerna were worn over tunics, and lastly they wore a helmet to protect their head and neck. Along with all these things the soldiers had full sets of bronze armor including a sheild for battle. The soldiers also had to carry their own food camping and sleeping gear when they went on trips. Roman soldiers had it tough sometimes but theu never failed to surve their countries, in the end romes strong armybenifited them in many ways.