• PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPM
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    2 days ago

    Explanation: As Rome declined, so too did its fearsome military. From full-time, highly trained, well-equipped, well-paid professionals in self-sustaining units serving for set periods of time, to unpaid lifelong farmer-conscripts split into penny packets to be overrun and destroyed by invading barbarians. Legions, pls go back