In the youth of great Rome, (fifth-second century BC), slaves (servus) are quite rare, sometimes they have the status of family members. The second-first centuries BC, the beginning of a new era, are marked by an increase in the number of prisoners of war, as well as debtors from provinces unable to pay a high Roman tax, usurious interest, and also receiving an appropriate stigma. Over time, the ratio of the number of free people to servants in Italy is 2.5: 1, in the whole of Rome about 10: 1, and the situation of the latter is substantially deteriorating. Still, in many cases slaves have a hope of improving their situation, a free certificate from the master, his family name and further, practically unlimited movement on the social ladder. At least two emperors of Rome, at the beginning of their career, were ordinary slaves. Such an institution of ascent allows you to cut off unnecessary national ambitions (i-de marcoman, cimbri, volsk, frank, etc., my tribe is the best, the rest are worthless) and create a trader, architect, military leader, teacher patriots of great Rome.
The price of a slave in the first century BC. is 4400 denarii, depending on the degree of success of the last war. At the same time, the daily salary of a legionary is 1 denarius, (otherwise, 4 sesterces or 16 asses at a time), including bonuses; for this amount you can buy 20 loaves of bread, or, at your option, 4 liters of ordinary wine, or a liter of beautiful Falern.
If you count on gold, whose price, as an opportunity to purchase basic material goods, surprisingly, almost unchanged, the soldier earns 35,000 rubles a month (2016).
Gladiator games last until the reign of the last emperor of the integral Roman Empire Flavius Theodosius (370395). The very institution of slavery comes to naught gradually, with a general softening of the morals of slaveholders and lawyers usually taking the side of oppressed servs. But, alas, the baton of this low phenomenon is intercepted by serfdom. Under Diocletian (284305) a law is issued, attaching peasants both colonies (tenants) and landowners, as well as artisans (blacksmiths, merchants) or to the place of residence, or to a certain profession that is now inherited.
2, 2a. Gaius Julius Caesar (Latin Gaius Iulius Caesar), 10044 BC. Ancient Roman statesman, dictator, great pontiff (lit. The builder of bridges), high priest. Representative of the patrician class. In his youth he avoids the unleashed Sulla, the civil war, and also the execution, as a relative of one of the enemies of this dictator. It is not known for certain whether Gaius Julius participated in suppressing the uprising of Spartacus; according to some reports, he, a military tribune (one of six in the legion, ruling for two months), prepared recruits. 63 BC. thanks to connections, popularity and money, young Caesar becomes a great pontiff. 60 BC. the creation of a triumvirate (union of three husbands); Pompeii-Crassus-Caesar. 58 BC. the beginning of the Gali war; it kills about a million Gauls (including civilians). 49 BC. the beginning of the civil war in ancient Rome; Caesar and ambition, against Pompey and the corrupt Republic. 45 BC. Battle of Mund (Spain), the hardest of all, conducted by Caesar. The 30,000 rebellious Pompeians are killed, the dictator for the first time in history holds a triumph after the victory of the Romans over the Romans. In the same year on coins for the first time appears the image of a living person of course, Caesar.
44 BC. Guia Julia is murdered by conspirators, led by Mark Brutus (possibly the illegitimate son of the dictator), the body burns the people at the stake from their own mourning clothes, judges chairs, benches, etc., after which the Civil War in a bloodless country flares up with renewed vigor.
2a. Guy Julius Caesar, the only authentic, lifetime sculpture, quite different from the generally accepted images of a relatively young Caesar (2).
3. Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus Augustus, the adopted son of Caesar, his successor, who finally won the Civil War, the first virtual Roman emperor.4. Guy Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (Caligula), 1241 gg. AD, the second emperor, by definition of Lucius Seneca boundless depravity combined with unlimited power. Eight months after the ascension to the throne, the initially peaceful Caligula becomes ill, perhaps encephalitis, having recovered, she becomes an insane dictator. Favorite expression Let them hate, if only they should be afraid Oderint, dum metuant (observer, doom mit (y) guy). In 41, the conspirators surround the emperor in one of the underground passages from the theater to the baths. The last thing that Caligula hears the formula used in the sacrifice hoc age Do this (ok aje) after that gets a sword in the chest from his bodyguard.
Together with Caesar, Praetorians kill his wife and two-year-old daughter.
5. Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, 3768, the Roman emperor, the last of the Julius-Claudian dynasty, the persecutor of Christians, nicknamed them Antichrist.
6. Flavius Aetius, commander of the Western Roman Empire, 390454, according to historians-contemporaries The Last (Great) Roman. The winner of Atilla in a two-day battle at the Cataluun Fields, in 451 (180,000 killed on both sides). Three years later, the Emperor Valentinian the Third, fearing the ambitions of his best diplomat and commander (he wants to extradite his daughter for the son of the ruler), kills Aetius right in the palace, at the audience. A year later, Rome, the former great capital, is captured and robbed by vandals (Vends). Twenty years later, the entire Western Roman Empire is fragmented into a number of barbarian kingdoms.
7. Roman legion (legionis military collection) of the heyday of the Empire. Modern reconstruction. The army consists of 57 thousand, later about 4,5 thousand infantry and auxiliary units. Heavy cavalry (equities) 300 people, divided into divisions (turmas) for 30 people. Archers 200 people; They act from the flanks, releasing arrows along the line of raised shields. Great from the lat. velox fast several hundred fighters irregular infantry, usually recruited from local allied tribes, or the youngest legionaries. Armament is a round shield, with a diameter of 90 cm, a Parma, a helmet, several darters of the Gasta velitaris, a length (with an iron tip of 30 cm) 120 cm and a short (50 cm.) Roman sword gladius. The highest glamor of a daring warrior is a wolfs hide over his helmet. The main defense against arrows, and other weapons their own agility. In a free, open formation, evading enemy jets with jumps, they are ordered to throw their spears into the formation of the enemy and quickly retreat for the ranks of the heavily armed infantry.
The first line, in fact, built for the battle of the legion hastati (Roman hastati, spearmen), soldiers aged 2025 years, who so need combat experience. Arms chain mail, or, in the era of the Empire plate armor, rectangular shield scoot, sword of gladia, dagger pugio, two two-meter dart piluma.
The second line is principles, (Latin princeps the first). Warriors in the prime of life, 2535, sometimes 40 years. Giving the young men the opportunity to gain experience, they let the gastata into the intervals between maniples and continue the battle to the victorious end.
On the third line there are triarius (triarius, lat. Third) soldiers of 4045 years old, veterans, the main reserve of the legion. Their main armament is long percussion javelins.