Rome And Greece Similarities And Differences

Rome and Greece similarities and differences

Roman Army Ancient Romans were (along with some Greek City-states) among the first people on Earth to pay their soldiers a regular salary so that they could be full-time soldiers instead of only fighting when they could spare the time from their farms. At first, the Romans had part-time soldiers like other countries, but by about 100 B.C.under Marius, the Romans began to pay soldiers to fight all year round. This gave them a lot of time for training and they became much better soldiers.

For the most part, only men could serve in the Roman army, though a few women may also have served. Men joined the army when they were about nineteen years old. Sometimes men volunteered for the army, either out of patriotism or for the adventure, or in the hope of rising to be an officer, or in the hope of getting citizenship, as people do in the United States today. Sometimes the Roman government

The Greeks lived in little city-states, each one like a small town in the United States today, with no more than about 100,000 people in each city-state. These city-states -Athens, Sparta, Corinth, Thebes - were always fighting each other over their borders. Often they would get together in leagues, a lot of city-states together, to fight as allies.

Sometimes other people invaded Greece, and then there would be wars to defend the city-states from the invaders. Sometimes the city-states fought together, and sometimes they didn't.

Then again, sometimes the Greeks fought in other countries. They invaded other countries and took them over, or they raided other cities and took their stuff. And they often fought for pay, as mercenaries, when one foreign country fought another (more on this