.Only men could be in the Roman

Army

.Every Roman soldier was a Roman

citizen

.Every Roman soldier had to be at

least 20 years old

.Most soldiers came from contries

outside Italy

.Soldiers had to stay in the army

for at least 25 years

Who was in the Roman army?

.There were about 30 legions in the Roman Army

.Each legion had ten cohorts

.Each cohort was made up of six troops, called centuries

.Each century was led by a centurion

.The officer commanding the whole legion was called a legate

.Legionaries were the best Roman soldiers

.An auxiliary was a soldier who was not a roman citizen

.Some soldiers had special skills

.Artillery soldiers fired giant catapults

.Romans liked to fight on foot

.They used cavalry to chase a fleeing enemy

.A Roman soldier wore armour made from strips of iron and leather

.A Roman soldier wore on his head a metal helmet

.Every soldiers carried a rectangular shield, curved

.The soldier’s main weapons were a short sword and a long spear called a javelin

.Romans soldiers kept fit by running, marching and practice-fighting

.Romans soldiers almost always obeyed orders

.They usually fought in lines, marching forward with their schields facing the enemy

.Romans soldiers looked like a tortoise, so they called this formation testudo

.In Roman times people .In Roman times people travelled on land on travelled on land on horseback, in carts pulled horseback, in carts pulled by oxen, or walking.by oxen, or walking.

.All the roads they built were .All the roads they built were straightstraight

.The Romans built their roads .The Romans built their roads on foundations of clay, on foundations of clay, chalk and gravelchalk and gravel

.Most of Roman Britain was wild, with forests and hills

.People lived in villages of round wooden houses with thatched roofs

.Some wealthy Romans lived in villas

.Most of the Roman villas were in the south of England

.Roman builders used stone, brick and tiles

.Some Roman towns were built at Celtic places

.Roman towns were neatly laid out

.The Basilica was both a law court and town hall

.By AD 100, London was the biggest town in Roman Britain

What were Roman towns like?

.If a place-name has “chester” or “cester” in it it’s almost certainly Roman

.The governor had the finest Roman palace in london and another one was beside the sea, at Fishbourne

Luca De Rosa, Francesco Papetti