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Did the Romans have a strong army?
The Roman Empire was powerful, due to its strong military tactics. Roman military policies helped to expand the empire. The soldiers were trained in the latest tactics of war and were well equipped with the weapons of war. As the Roman Empire grew, the army consisted of many men captured during the wars.
How was the Roman army structured?
The Roman Army consisted of four Legions, each with the strength of roughly 4200 infantrymen. The Legion, when formed up for battle, had three lines of infantry: first were the hastati, then the principes, and finally the veteran triarii.
What was the Hellenistic army?
Hellenistic armies. The Hellenistic armies is the term applied to the armies of the successor kingdoms of the Hellenistic period, which emerged after the death of Alexander the Great. After his death, Alexander’s huge empire was torn between his successors, the Diadochi ( Greek: Διάδοχοι ).
Why did the Romans keep on killing the Hellenistic armies?
There, you have these Hellenistic armies of Macedon and the Seleucid Empire fighting the Romans and realising at certain stages during battles that they may have lost and trying to surrender. But the Romans kept on killing them because they had this relentless obsession with achieving their goals.
Were the Romans ever in the Ptolemaic army?
In Ptolemaic Egypt, Roman adventurers and veterans are found commonly serving under the Ptolemies. Romans are found in Ptolemaic service as early as 252/1 BC. The Ptolemaic army was odd in that, out of all the Hellenistic armies, it was the only army where you could find Romans in Greek service.
What was the phalanx of the Hellenistic armies called?
Thus, the phalanx of the Hellenistic armies used terms such as Chrysaspides (Greeks: Χρυσάσπιδες ‘gold-shields’), Chalkaspides (‘bronze-shields’) and Leukaspides (‘white-shields’) to denote formations within their phalanxes, the two latter being important in the composition of the Antigonid phalanx.