The Roman Empire was created and controlled ... Keeping the army on side As future Emperors would discover, while soldiers were loyal to their emperor, this loyalty was nothing compared to the ...

Most soldiers in the Roman Empire came from countries outside Italy. There were soldiers from Africa, France, Germany, Spain and the Middle East. The soldiers were the best trained, they had the ...

Archaeologists in the Netherlands unearthed the tomb of a Roman soldier believed to date back ... long considered peripheral within the Roman Empire. "Today evidence has been found that the ...