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Today we took notes on the Roman legion, farmers, and more.
-5000 soldiers, not in it for pay (not yet)
     -The Roman army's elite heavy infantry
     -Recruited exclusively from Roman citizens
-Group of eighty's a century
     -On horseback is cavalry
Economic change
-Slaves poured into Italy
-End of the second century BCE there were over a million slaves in Italy
-Small farmers lost land to aristocrats if they couldn't pay their debts
-The big farms became massive estates called latifundia