More Rome Notes

Today in west civ we took some notes on Rome. We talked about the Roman legion  which was 5000 solders that were deployed in certain places. The cavalry were the troops that rode horses in the battle. A group of eighty is a century. Hannibal was a Carthaginian war leader who had an idea to come into Rome by the north instead of by sea. His plan was very good but proved not to work. A latifundia is a huge amount of land that was bought from all the local farmers in an area.