Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Army and Navy
- Sea Power
- naval bases at
- Misenum
and
Ravenna
- Forum
lilii
- Alexandria
- Seleucia
- Flotillas
- Man maid port
- Rhine
- Danube
- Sailors
- free provincial/
commanders e.g. prefects
- served for 25 years
- Army
- Cultural
force
- provided a common bond between the heterogeneous people of the empire
- use of latin
- native cultural life
increasing influenced
- roman citizenship
as an aspiration
- stimulates local economies
in vicinity of bases
- Romanisation
- provincial troops
- increasing need to rely on
manpower of provinces
- auxiliary troops
- number of troops probably
equal to that of the legions
- 150,000 men
- served in the area of their enlistment
- first hand knowledge of conditions and increased
speed at which romanisation took place
- Praetorian Guard
- hand picked legionnaires who
were based in Rome and Italy
- not actually primarily the Princep's bodyguard
- troop of germans did that job
- did augsutus trust the army
- "however he never allowed more than three cohorts to remain in the city
and even those were without a permanent camp, the rest he regularly sent
to winter of summer quarters in the towns near rome"
- "furthermore, he resricted al the soldiery everywhere too a fixed scale of pay and allowance, designating the
duration of their service and the rewards on it's completion according to each man's rank, in order to keep
them from being tempted to revolution after their discharge either by age or poverty"