Rome

Roman Legion

• The army
• Divided into smaller units
• 5,000 people was a legion
• 80 people was a century
• Non romans signed up for the Legion for the money
• Men marching on foot were the infantry
• Men on horseback were the cavalry 

Latifundia - a Latin word for Greek estate

Two brothers, Gracchus

• The poor is getting poorer
• The rich is getting richer
• The middle class is becoming poor
• They say to the rich people to give the soldiers some land back
• Got a law passed that the rich had to give some of the land back
• The rich people attacked Tiberius Gracchus with chairs and threw his body in the Tigris River