Today in West Civ class we took notes.
- The Roman Legion- Their army/cops
- Divided into smaller unites
- 1 legion was 5,000 people
- The main reason people joined it is because they needed to make money
- Group of 80 was called a century, kind of like a phalnax
- Guys on foot were infantry
- Were no woman in roman army
- Guys on horseback were called cavalry
- Many adventures for having horses, moves faster, easier to kill
- Had shields, swords, daggers, armour and tunic
-Sicily was the 1st Punic War
- 2nd= Hannibal attacked Rome
-3rd= Romans attacked Carthage
- When Men left woman took care of everything
- Latitundia- Great estate
- Gracchus were both tribunes, went to senate and said you should not be punished for fighting and war and have our land taken away from us, all they wanted was some of their land back
- Assembly passed a law saying the rich need to give some of their land back
- Then they killed one of the brothers and a civil war started