2007-03-08 14:32:47 · 6 answers · asked by Thomas W 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
about 4200 during the republic period and 6200 during the imperial period.
2007-03-08 14:37:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
"The size of a typical legion varied widely throughout the history of ancient Rome, with complements of 4,200 legionaries in the late republican period of Rome which where split into groups of 120 legionaries called maniples, to the number of 6,200 in the imperial periods."
Way to plagiarize from Wikipedia...and don't say you wrote that page on Wikipedia, because that was me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_legion
But "centurions" actually did not command 100 soldiers. The Roman "century" was actually a group of 80.
2007-03-08 14:42:55 · answer #2 · answered by doctorevil64 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The size of a typical legion varied widely throughout the history of ancient Rome, with complements of 4,200 legionaries in the late republican period of Rome which where split into groups of 120 legionaries called maniples, to the number of 6,200 in the imperial periods.
2007-03-08 14:38:45 · answer #3 · answered by Duh 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
8 men were a tent (8)
10 tents were a century (80)
6 centuries were a cohort (480)
10 cohorts were a legion (4800)
This does not include the many axillary men who were a part of the legion but did not fight.
2007-03-09 01:12:37 · answer #4 · answered by Yak Rider 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
more than 1000
2007-03-10 00:10:59 · answer #5 · answered by Tropango 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
4,200
2007-03-08 15:16:49 · answer #6 · answered by -RKO- 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋