Why was the Roman Army so Dominate in the Ancient World?
borders or destroyed her armies. This also made it easy to raise armies and campaign in more of the year then just when the crops weren’t growing. Though, what made the army so great? Well, a pair of technological advancements, in my view tells the tale: the Legionary and the pilum. The Legionaries all had the same weapons and armor, that way no one legionary was any better than any other legionary. Soldiers, at their most basic level were performing dual roles, that of a “slinger” and that of an “infantryman.” Generally, the legionary would throw his pilum into the mass on oncoming troops before engaging them in battle. The pilum was a wondrous invention as it was designed to be a ‘one and done’ weapon. It was simply a long piece of wood with a metal point at the end. It was designed to break when it hit something [be it shield or man] and not be able to be thrown back, every solider carried two to three of these weapons. Roman commanders had a lot to do with the civilization’s greatn
