what was the role of the military in expanding Rome’s Empire?

Answer 1

The Legions were much more than soldiers. They were an ad hoc police force, engineers and , as some stated above, settlers.

In truth most Legions were garrison troops. It was expensive to wage a war with Legions marching all over the world. Most armies only had a few Legions at most; and were directed towards one goal or objective. Afterwards, a Legion was disbanded, unless it was needed for protection; such as in the frontiers.

Many Roman colonies were created for disbanded Legionaries. It was a form of payment and to have a more stable colony. Especially in the republic and early empire.

Answer 2

Basically, it was an Empire created by the force of the sword. The people they conquered then served in the Roman Military which made their effectives grow even more. Those "foreign soldiers" got Roman citizenship in return.
You can also see the importance of the military if look at the leaders of the Roman Empires. Those were "imperators" for the most part, meaning "general" or "commander". The Roman legions were very loyal to their commanders.
For some time different commanders quarreled for the title of "Caesar" (Emperor). Those were fights within the Roman military.
So basically, the Roman Empire was very much about military force.

Answer 3

The military were who assured conquered places for a long time, mainly at regions tending rebellion, usually the most cults, like Greece or Israel. They assured frontiers permanently. Moreover, after 20 years serving, soldiers discharged and had the right of land at the conquered territories, so they were keeping the Roman civilization over the foreign land creating family and all that. So the military's role was double, first a role of sentinel, and after, a role of owner.

Answer 4

Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew from a city-state founded on the Italian Peninsula circa the 9th century BC to a massive empire straddling the Mediterranean Sea. In its twelve-century existence, Roman civilization shifted from a monarchy, to a republic based on a combination of oligarchy and democracy, to an autocratic empire. It came to dominate Western Europe and the entire area surrounding the Mediterranean Sea through conquest and assimilation. Nonetheless, a number of factors led to the eventual decline of the Roman Empire. The western half of the empire, including Hispania, Gaul, and Italy, eventually broke into independent kingdoms in the 5th century; the eastern empire, governed from Constantinople, is usually referred to as the Byzantine Empire after 476, the traditional date for the "fall of Rome" and for the subsequent onset of the Early Middle Ages, also known as the Dark Ages.

Roman civilization is often grouped into "classical antiquity" with ancient Greece, a civilization that inspired much of the culture of ancient Rome. Ancient Rome contributed greatly to the development of law, war, art, literature, architecture, technology and language in the Western world, and its history continues to have a major influence on the world today.

Answer 5

The military was used to conquer new lands, build roads to it, and pacify local resistance. Retiring military often settled in the newly conquered lands and helped build Romanized communities.

The most lasting influence of the Roman military are the roads. Even today the width of a Roman road has determined the width of railroad cars and even the solid booster rockets on the space shuttle.

Answer 6

the germans felled forests, drained marshlands, and reclaimed land form the sea itself, but there was still not enough space so they brought the vastness of poland into thier empire by conquering it, and italy, and french land and many other nations.
the roman battle tactics helped them agianst the unorganized scraggle armies of these nations. such as " the tortise" where the swordsmen would mesh thier shields together so they would be covered form all sides by the shields, and above their heads as well
the only visible spot of the soliders was thier feet, so the enemy would have nothing to fire at but their feet, they would shoot them and the romans would be close neough to stab them. so steel met shield and flesh.

Answer 7

They conquered anyone and everyone basicly who got in their way of aquiring more territory. So yes, because of their kick-butt army, they got more land, which was one of the legacys of the Roman Empire.

Answer 8

very important