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Stephen Riley’s survival guide to weapons and armor

Coliseum, Roads, aqueducts, Augustus Caesar

 The Romans had a lot of weapons to fight with. The spears that they had were called “hastas” but the thrown spears were called “pila” and the “pilum” were heavy thrown spears. They also had a lot of swords. The swords were the “pugio” which was a small dagger, there was the “gladius” which was a short sword that was twenty-four inches long and the last sword that they had the “spatha” which was the longest sword that they carried.

.  The Romans also had a lot of armor to keep them safe. For the secondary forces they used lorica hamata which was a type of chain mail that was usually made of iron but was sometimes made of bronze.There was also the lorica squama that was made of small metal scales that were for the auxiliary infantry. With the armor they also had wooden shields called “parma” with iron around the edges. The last piece of armor that they used were helmets called galae or casis.