- 5,000 Soldiers in a Legion
- Roman army's elite heavy infantry
- recruited exclusively from Roman citizens
- Group of eighty is a century
- on horseback is the cavalry
After the Punic Wars...
- Slaves poured into Italy
- By the end of the second century, there were over one million slaves in Italy
- Small farmers lost their land to aristocrats if they couldn't pay their debt, sometimes because the men of the house were fighting in battle
- Slaves did the work on the farms for the rich
- the big farms became massive estates called latifundia
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