Life on the limes

8 important questions on Life on the limes

What caused the Roman success?

  1. Good roads
  2. soldiers were well trained and disciplined
  3. Rome forged alliances with the people the conquered
  4. The salary of the soldiers was payed with taxes

How did the Romans form alliances with the people they conquered?

  1. Inhabitans could keep their land
  2. Inhabitants had to pledge loyalty to Rome
  3. Inhabitants had to provide soldiers

What does vent vidi vici mean?

I came, I saw and I conquered
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How did the Roman Empire go from peace to it's violent end

  1. Pax Roman: 200 years of peace and wealth (peak 117AD)
  2. Germanic Tribes were attracted to this wealth

Can you give me an example of one of those cities with a surrounding wall in the Netherlands?

Maastricht.

But we learned that large groups of Franks and Germanic tribes were incorporated in the Roman army as allies. What were the consequences of this?

At the same time Franks and German tribes attacked, also large numbers of people migrated into the Romand empire. Some by invitation, some on their own device. Nobody could stop them
They lived in the city (were everybody had to take on the same profession as his father) or moved to the country. First as workers in Roman villas (they were not allowed to move and belonged to these villas): rules of emperor Diocletianus. In the end the Romans left and these villas became small villages inhabited by the Franks and Germanic people.

Did this defense system work?

It did for a while, but in the end, the had to abandon the Rhine border.
More and more Germanic tribes flooded into the Romand empire (the great migration). They forced the Roman Emperor to abdicate (467 AD) and didn't chose a new emperor.

How did cities grow (urban-agriarian society)

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