REP002 Roman Velite Attacking
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Thomas Gunn REP002 Roman Velite Attacking
The Roman Velite preparing to take on the Carthaginian elephant! The Velites were a class of light Roman infantry who were armed with spears and short thrusting swords. They rarely wore armor as they were the youngest and poorest soldiers in the Legion, however they did carry small shields and wore headdress made from wolf skins. Velites were placed at the front of a Legion as skirmishers and usually took on enemy chariots and elephants because of this positioning during a battle. A Legion normally had around 1000 Velites on its strength, Velites were disbanded as a military unit within the Legion under the Marius reforms of 107 BC.
The Roman Republic was the age of ancient Roman civilization beginning with the overthrow of the Roman Kingdom, traditionally dated to 509 BC, and ending in 27 BC with the establishment of the Roman Empire. It was during this period that Rome's control expanded from the city's immediate surroundings to hegemony over the entire Mediterranean world. During the first two centuries of its existence, the Roman Republic expanded through a combination of conquest and alliance, from central Italy to the entire Italian peninsular. By the following century, it included North Africa, most of the Iberian Peninsular and what is now southern France. Two centuries after that, towards the end of the 1st century BC, it included the rest of modern France, Greece and much of the eastern Mediterranean, internal tensions led to a series of civil wars, culminating with the assassination of Julius Ceaser, which then led to the transition from republic to empire.
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