Thursday, February 23, 2012

Roman Military Training


Things that I found interesting;
  • Focused mostly on gymnactics and swimming for their strength and agility training
  • Would practice with with armatura, which were wooden weapons to master for close combat
  • Would run long distances with all their armor on, so they would be able to in battle
  • They would practice fighting with one another, and would stab each other as hard as they could (with wooden weapons)
  • At the beginning of the Roman Republic, most soldiers were big, strong, but slow, and later on, they relized this and trained them more with agility than strength
  • The best recruits were alway sent to the front lines when they finished training
  • After they completed their training, they were assigned to a legion, which would branch of and of into smaller groups 
Questions that I still have:
  • How were the ranks organized? Was it like in today's military, like general and stuff?

2 comments:

  1. this is great because it tells us exactly what they did and used for their training

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  2. This post made me realize how the Roman Military gained their strength. I realized this because they use swimming and gymnatics for strengh and agility training and for both of those you have to be very strong.

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