Title: Principes - Wikipedia
Headings: Principes
Principes
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Camillan system
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Marian reforms
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Content: Marian reforms
With the formal military reforms of Gaius Marius in 107 BC, intended to combat a shortage of manpower from wars against the Numidian king Jugurtha in North Africa and Germanic tribes to the north, the different classes of units were disbanded entirely with legionaries uniformly armed with gladius and two pilum. The wealth and age requirements were scrapped. Soldiers would join as a career, rather than as service to the city, and would all be equipped as miles, or soldiers, with the same state purchased equipment. Auxiliaries, local irregular troops, would fulfill other roles, serving as archers, skirmishers and cavalry. See also
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References
^ a bSouthern, Pat (2007). The Roman Army: A Social and Institutional History. Oxford University Press. pp. 90.