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 __ Life of roman soldier

Home Augustus Ceaser   Slaves Life of a Roman Soldier Aqueducts Roman Roads Colosseum   __  Above are some facts about being a roman soldier back in Ancient Rome. The facts above will aware you of what it was like to be a Roman soldier with facts like they use wooden swords to make them stronger so that when they held a metal sword it would seem very light. Those are some about this wiki page. A modern day conection from the soldiers in rome is that there army is pretty stong today.
 *  Weapons, clothes, and food were provided but it came out of their pay.
 *  Any soldier belonging to a legion had to be a roman citizen.[[image:http://www.roman-colosseum.info/images/christian-martyrs-colosseum-x.jpg width="312" height="164" align="right" caption="This is a Roman Soldier in the Colosseum"]]
 *  The soldiers often fought far from their home.
 *  They were given retirement money.
 *    They practiced with wooden swords to make them stronger.
 *  That would make a metal sword very light.
 *  They often swam across rivers.
 *  They learned to jump on a horse.
 *  They became fit to march four miles.
 *  They also learned to march in a column.