houlahannelsonsoldiers

Soldiers
Home Aqueducts Roads Agustus Ceaser Slaves Colosseum

This page is important to your visit to Ancient Rome because when your there there will be many talks about them gaining land and winning battles. you will need to know how well the soldiers are and if they will most likely win battles. Agustus Ceaser (pg 4.) was the ruller of the ancient roman army so to see more information on him See page 4.

How does this relate to life today? Well because Ancient Rome one so many of there battles that is how they gained so much land. Most of there battles were over land, and water. So Rome has so much land right now because of there battles that the ancient Rome armys. The boarders back then kept expanding and shrinking back then because of the battles not just Romes! The soldiers had to be extreamly fierce and well trained to be able to beat romes soldiers. They were one of the most firce armys, with one of the most fierce rulers. A soldier's life consisted of a basic repetition of everyday activities. Every 15 days each soldier received their rations. They each received 1/2 a bushel of Frumenti (grain). With this Frumenti, they could prepare many types of food including bread, porridge, wheat, and barley. When meat was available, it was eaten. Most of the meat was purchased from the traveling merchants. The soldiers were recommended to eat cheese, olive oil, and honey whenever available**.** Each soldier only received 45 dollars a year. This was not a lot, even by Ancient Rome's standards. But the soldiers all received a portion of the "spoils of war". These gifts of land and valuables made the soldier's life a very profitable one. In addition, with normal generals in charge the higher ranks would receive more land than the lower ranks. Caesar was the first to distribute all the spoils of war evenly among all the officers and soldiers.