Stage 25 - Culture Questions

Read pages 97-102 and completely answer the following questions.

1.  What was the difference between the legio and the exercitus?  What was the advantage to dividing an exercitus into many legiōnēs?

2.  Describe a Roman legion.  How many and what types of men would be in a legio?

3.  Describe the procedures for recruiting legionnaires.

4.  Describe the procedures for training legionnaires.

5.  What was the advantage to the way the miles Romanus used his gladius?

6.  What equipment would a legionnaire carry?  Identify gladius, pugio, pīlum, scutum, lōrīca segmentāta, cingulum, caligae, and galea.

7.  What other tools would fully equipt militēs carry?

8.  What was the technological advantage of the pīlum to a regular spear?

9.  From the list of duties cited at the bottom of page 100, what can we infer about the importance of the military to Roman imperial strength aside form just winning battles?

10.  T or F            All soldiers received the same amount of pay.

11.  How much of a soldier’s pay might he expect to bring home?  Why?

12.  What did a legionnaire acquire upon retirement?

  13.  Identify the Auxiliarēs and their importance to battle tactics.  Why might the Romans have preferred to emply auxiliarēs rather than train their own men for these tasks?

  14.  How did the structure of military service provide a sort of social security to citizens and a sense of fairness for non citizens? 

  15.  What are the similarities and differences between the social and military functions of the United States and those of ancient Roman?