The Roman Legion
- The soldiers
- If you needed to attack someone, they would do it
- The "police" or army
- Divided into two sections
- One legion is 5000 people
- A group of 80 is a century
- They didn't paid
- People joined because they were in it to do it
- The men on foot, marching: infantry
- ALL men; NO women
- Also had men on horseback: cavalry
- Being on horseback is faster; advantage
- Some men fought on horseback with shields, words, daggers, etc.
Punic Wars
- 3 Punic wars
- All won by Rome
- First on fought over Sicily
- Second - Hannibal
- Third - Romans Attacked Carthage
- Men go off to war and leave their wives at home
- Women are forced to sell their farm because of the amount of bills
- Latifundia- great estate
Gracchus
- 2 men with the same name
- they said we have a huge problem
- "The rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer.."
- "Give some of his land back to the people that you bought it from.."
- Said to get a law passed saying that the rich had to give back the land
- Got beaten and fought and throw into the Tigris River
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