Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Roman Empire
- The Roman Army
- The Roman Army was made up of different ranks
- There was 5 different parts to the Roman Army
- R
- Cavalry
- There was 5 different parts of the army
- Archers
- The Roman archers would use the normal bow and would travel by foot
- They started to use mounted archery once that came into conflict with Eastern European countries
- Cavalry
- The Roman Cavalry would ride horses and their weapon was a sword
- Commanders
- Commanders would be in charge of the Roman Army
- Reserves
- The Roman Reserves would replace people who had died in battle or if they had gotten a promotion
- Infantry
- Auxiliaries
- The Auxiliaries were people that were non-Roman citizens
- The Army was divided into legionaries of 4000 men
- Only Roman citizens could become legionnaires
- Non-citizens could join a reserve force called “auxiliaries”
- The Roman Empire invaded a lot of countries in Europe
- These are the countries that they invaded:
Hispania
Germania
Gaúl
- The way that the Roman Empire was so stretched, this is what led to its downfall as it couldn’t control all the areas that they had conquered
- Money
- They got money from invading other countries
- They lost money from overspending when in war
- The Barbarians
- The Germanic tribes over through the Romans with help from the Barbarians
- The Roman Empire got attacked by the Barbarians leading to the Fall of the Roman Empire
- The Barbarians helped Germania to take back their country and in the end Germania helped them end the Roman Empire
- Economic failures on slave Labour.
- They had trouble paying workers as they were overspending on the war that they were in
- Rome had mostly relied on Slave Labour until then, but with the economy crumbling, Rome’s slaves had stopped working
- Religion
- The Christian Religion rose because of the loss of Roman traditions and the decline of Rome itself
- They believed in many Gods
- Every God gave something to them
- Mercury
- Mars
- Location
- Their location was key to their success as Rome is in the middle of Europe so it was easy to take over countries close to it
- Fights within the Roman Empire
- The main reason was that the Emperor didn’t like the Senate or the Senate didn’t like the Emperor. This was seen quite usually when an Emperor was appointed.
- Circus Maximus
- The Circus Maximus made Romans hate each other as it was a very competitive sport
- The Colosseum
- The Colosseum was a negative as it taught Romans to fight but it also taught them to start a rebellion
- The Rise of the Byzantium Empire
- The Byzantium Empire sent the Barbarian troops coming from the East straight into the West of Rome
- Economic failures on slave Labour
- The Rise of the Roman Empire was in 27 BC
- The Fall of the Roman Empire was in 476 CE