How did the strong army contribute in strengthening the Roman Empire? Give two reasons.
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Answer:
The Roman army helped the Roman empire expand and conquer large areas of land. The soldiers were well-trained and disciplined. Many soldiers were Roman citizens and were known as legionaries.
Explanation:
The Imperial Roman army was the terrestrial armed forces deployed by the Roman Empire from about 30 BC to 476 AD,[1] the final period in the long history of the Roman army. This period is sometimes split into the Principate (30 BC – 284 AD) and Dominate (285–476) periods.Under Augustus (ruled 30 BC – 14 AD), the army consisted of legions, eventually auxilia and also numeri.[2]
Legions were formations numbering about 5,000 heavy infantry recruited from the ranks of Roman citizens only, transformed from earlier mixed conscript and volunteer soldiers serving an average of 10 years, to all-volunteer units of long-term professionals serving a standard 25-year term. (Conscription was only decreed in emergencies.)
Auxilia were organised into regiments of about 500 strong under Augustus, a tenth the size of legions, recruited from the peregrini or non-citizen inhabitants of the empire who constituted approximately 90 percent of the Empire's population in the 1st century AD. The auxilia provided virtually all the army's cavalry, light infantry, archers and other specialists, in addition to heavy infantry equipped in a similar manner to legionaries.