Beyond the Battlefield - The Surprising Civil Duties of the Roman Legions

This video explains how Roman legions took care of provinces and developed the land. Apart from their obvious military role, they had a surprisingly large set of responsibilities for fulfilling civil, logistical, and administrative tasks. With the help of the army, the provinces managed to prosper greatly. This video is the complete answer to the question: "What have the Romans really done for us?"
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Primary Sources:
-Strabo, Geography, 2.5.33.
-Historia Augusta, Severus, XVIII
-Cassius Dio, Roman History 77.16.3.
-IRT 880: irt.kcl.ac.uk/irt2009/IRT880....
-IRT 868: irt.kcl.ac.uk/irt2009/IRT868....
-IRT 919: irt.kcl.ac.uk/irt2009/IRT919....
-IRT 895: irt.kcl.ac.uk/irt2009/IRT895....
-IRT 913: irt.kcl.ac.uk/irt2009/IRT913....
-IRT 914: irt.kcl.ac.uk/irt2009/IRT914....
-IRT 915: irt.kcl.ac.uk/irt2009/IRT915....
-IRT 986: irt.kcl.ac.uk/irt2009/IRT986....
-IRT 872: irt.kcl.ac.uk/irt2009/IRT872....
-IRT 108: irt.kcl.ac.uk/irt2009/IRT108....
-CIL VIII, 1: irt.kcl.ac.uk/irt2009/IRT908....
-CIL VIII, 2586: db.edcs.eu/epigr/bilder.php?s...
-CIL VIII, 10048 : rusafricum.org/en/thuggasurvey...
-CIL VIII, 14603: edh.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/edh/...
-CIL VIII, 2728: edh.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/edh/...
-AE 1960, 264: edh.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/edh/...
-AE 1962, 305: edh.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/edh/...
-Itinerarium Antonini Augusti: www.tabulae-geographicae.de/e...
-Bu Njem Ostraca Collection
Secondary Sources:
-Adams, J. N. “Latin and Punic in Contact? The case of the Bu Njem Ostraca”, Journal of Roman Studies 84, 1994, 87-112.
-Adams, J. N. “The Poets of Bu Njem: Language, Culture and the Centurionate”, Journal of Roman Studies 89, 1999, 109-134.
-Rebuffat, P. R. “Notes sur le Camp Romain de Gholaia (Bu Njem)”, Libyan Studies 20, 1999, 155-167.
-Goodchild, R. G. “Oasis Forts of Legio III Augusta on the Routes to the Fezzan”, Papers of the British School at Rome 22, 1954, 56-68.
-Hammond, N. “The Limes Tripolitanus : a Roman Road in North Africa”, Journal of the British Archeological Association, 1967, 1-18.
-Le Bohec, Y. La troisième légion Auguste. Paris: Éditions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1989.
-Mackensen, M. “New fieldwork at the Severan fort of Myd(…)/Gheriat el-Garbia on the limes Tripolitanus”, Libyan Studies 43, 2012, 41-60.
-Jona Lendering, "Sherds from the Desert: The Bu Njem Ostraca", Ancient Warfare 1/2 2007.
-Mattingly, D. J. “IRT 895 and 896: Two inscriptions from Gheriat el-Garbia”, Libyan Studies 16, 1985, 67-75.
-Marichal, R. Les Ostraca de Bu Njem, Tripoli: Libya Antiqua, suppl.9, 1992.
-Rebuffat, R. “A propos du « Limes Tripolitanus »”, Revue Archéologique, Nouvelle Série, Fasc. 1, 1980, 105-124.
Introduction (0:00)
Sponsor (0:55)
Military Role (1:55)
Civil Role (6:11)
Logistical Role (7:48)
Communication Role (9:17)
Post-Retirement Role (10:15)
How 1 legion brought PROSPERITY to Africa

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Wow, to think we can still have so much content on the history of a region because of the Romans keeping records and we have the building and constructions as evidence, plz continue on doing these videos on different regions.

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[@JonEtxebeberriaRodriguez]

There is much more material which unfortunately did not made it into the video. Just as an example, at the fort of Gholaia lots of documents from the garrison's activities have been preserved. We even know the garrison had a "poetry club" 🤣

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@@JonEtxebeberriaRodriguez woah, poetry club!! My calture would love that.

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@@JonEtxebeberriaRodriguez do u have a reference for this?

[@JonEtxebeberriaRodriguez]

@@andrewmills6212 You will find the title of an article covering it in the sources. It's called "The Poets of Bu Njem"

[@gabrielinostroza4989]

That system of farms that doubled as fortifications and rallying points sounds like it would have been really useful by the Rhine and Danube frontiers, i wonder if there was anything of the sort put into action there.

[@JonEtxebeberriaRodriguez]

I'm no expert on the Rhine frontier so take it with a grain of salt. In Tripolitania scholars have been able to identify those structures because they have been abandoned for centuries. Only the romans stayed there for a long time and carried out agricultural labour. So in terms of archaeology it allows us to have a very detailed picture of the frontier in a specific period. Becasue almost everything we will find there is roman. Even the ruins and traces of the forts can still be seen today from the air very clearly. Also, there was no natural barrier in Tripolitania so everyone opted to fortify the places as much as possible. In the Rhine frontier, the main problem might be urbanization because it's a densely populated area today which means some places cannot be excavated and the passing of civilizations and peoples one after the other which difficults dating some remains. I would say it's mainly because of that and the fact that there were lots of forts already there, so there might be no actual need

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@@JonEtxebeberriaRodriguez i figured the different terrain and type of dwelling would have something to do with how defenses worked, i know there were networks of forts along the river, Romans would live in their colony towns instead of spreading out far from any help, and on the other side Germans would live in their villages only moving spradically instead of being fully nomadic, so they might have been unnecessary but it could go either way. Maybe they had structures like this but they just became the foundations of castles later on, like you said it'd be really hard to find out.

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@@gabrielinostroza4989 it's more of a case of things are preserved better in that climate and in sparsely populated spots. In places like Germania, a lot of archeological evidence was lot because of plants, trees, erosion and people.

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@@JonEtxebeberriaRodriguez also climate. Rhine area is much more wet, and thus everything degrades faster, compared to a much drier Libya.

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Thank you for the kind words, Rene! I indeed try to keep all my phrases and structure to be more understandable for a wider audience, though I would say your English is very good!

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[@HistoriaMilitum]

Hello Joseph, your comment is heartwarming to read, as you summed up everything that I wanted when I started creating videos. It tells me you are a true fan of history, and have watched many of our videos. There are many more we are currently working on that I am sure you will enjoy. Cheers!

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I was about to comment about it, then I checked your sources, and smiled when I saw the French book of Le Bohec in there! This is the cream for learning about how Roman Legions worked during the early Imperial era and the unit itself. I found out about the book back when I was at the university, a teacher of mine mentioned it, I immediately searched for it! This book is a gold mine about the III Augusta on its own, but I see your sources list goes way beyond (not talking about first hand sources). This is top quality work! Keep it up.

[@JonEtxebeberriaRodriguez]

Thanks for your kind words! We used Le Bohec's book to get an idea of what we were dealing with. Mostly in terms of chronology and sources. We are not native french speakers so we tried to do our best with it hahahaha. The rest is archaeological sources and information we used to illustrate about the activities of III Augusta in the region. As a side note, french historians have a lot to say in the field of the roman legions. Just a couple of years ago, François Cadiou, a french scholar from Bordeaux University blew up the paradigm of the Marian Reform. If you are interested his book is "L'armeé Imaginaire".

[@KroM234]

@@JonEtxebeberriaRodriguez That is awesome! The latter item was a subject I was initially interested in back (when I was considering a thesis, I ended up not going that path) then and the fluff surrounding the Marian "reforms". It was indeed something we used to debate within the French historian community and I always been a staunch defender of the idea that even the term "reform" is a fallacy in this case, and that all Marius did (beside being a competent general) was to formalize in regards of the Roman law, what Rome did in practice already basically since the late Punic Wars era (as a slow change process). I reckon that the idea of "Marian reforms" is more installed within Anglo-Saxon historiography. I will make sure to get Cadiou's work!

[@JonEtxebeberriaRodriguez]

@@KroM234 Indeed! It has moved beyond the point you say. It's like the reform didn't change a thing and that the real reform happened gradually during the Ist century BC with Augustus putting the final nail to the coffin

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Thank you very much for the compliment :). Coming from a Dr. means a lot. I have seen that you have covered some interesting aspects of the trade and exploration of Africa by the romans. Those are very interesting topics we had to leave out for this video. Wish you the best for you and your channel (I'm Filaxim's researcher by the way hahaha)

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[@HistoriaMilitum]

Thank you!! I appreciate the enthusiasm :)

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Very nicely done. I much prefer a comprehensive treatment of a particular illustration of a topic to overreaching generalizations that offer very little explanatory value.👍 I think it's important to mention the powerful incentive that retired legionaries would have had to remain in the area of their prior posting. Mostly being men who had earned citizenship through service, they would possess several important rights not granted to indigenous locals and other newcomers. The right to buy and sell land pretty much at will, the assessment of taxes on a different and more lenient basis, the right to bid for certain government supply contracts, the right of appeal of judicial decisions to Roman authorities, and a few other privileges, would automatically make them the equivalent of an upper middle class, if you can call them that. In addition, they presumably would have made social and business contacts among the local population during their service, and among their younger former comrades still under arms. Why try to start over somewhere new when you're already well established where you are, with some social clout, and with good prospects ahead? Their former service would also virtually guarantee them officer positions in the local militia, a political advantage in garnering future favors that shouldn't be scoffed at.

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I am quite impressed by how the legionaries collected and shared what amounts to basically intelligence reports. It would foster a culture of constant vigilance, thinking about possible threats and how to neutralize them and initiative all the way down to the single legionary. I suppose this is another of the ways that the legions were so formidable in war.

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Can you do a video on how archeologists piece together sources (such as these legionary records from the forts) to understand what happened in the region?

[@HistoriaMilitum]

Interesting topic! We will definitely consider making a shorter video on this, cheers!

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Loving the video ! I am doing a research project on Bu Njem and it was so lovely to watch this with my husband to show him the area of work I am in. Thank you so much for the video !

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Thank you for all you're hard work! Fantastic effort! .. no wonder we never heard from Lepidus after the second triumvirate. Africa seemed the quiet place to be for retirement.

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Hell yeah man. Love your vids. A nice little entertaining video to break up the videos I've been bringing on by Thersites the Historian. Idk if you've watched him as hes more focused on classical and archaic Greece and his videos are more like a college lecture but it's great stuff.

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That’s great to hear, welcome aboard! More more videos to come this year!

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it is very impressive how the Roman empire changed the known world during its long reign as the worlds only super power. I feel that the world took a few steps back in development and organization when the empire fell.

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they werent the only superpower the various empires that would come from persia such as the parthian empire were also super powers that kicked rome's ass multiple times

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@@tiberius3701 true they weren't the only superpower, yet the impact of the roman empire is far superior than that of persia, Rome gave Greece to the world, and Rome created the western world. Its succesors shaped (with regretable actions of course) the modern world, by imitating its empire, using its laws, mantaining its language and expanding its culture. And this comes from from someone from Chile who speaks spanish, a Romance language so you can imagine.

[@tiberius3701]

@@Belriose97 I'm not disputing the fact that Rome had more influence on how the world would eventually be shaped (However, both did have significant influences on the world and how they would be shaped) I'm just pointing out the fact that saying Rome was the world's only superpower is incorrect as throughout Rome's history the various Persian states and their successors had been on par with the Romans militarily and only with the help of excellent generals did Rome not completely collapse to the Persian forces.

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@@tiberius3701 Ok I understand your argument, yet I think you give Persia way too much credit. True they were defeated many times, yet in the multiple wars both empires had Rome sacked Ctesiphon their capital 6 times, and the Persian empire actually colapsed with Trajan. It was the will of the next emperor Hadrian to restrain from this expansion as he was aware the empire was already too big, and adopted a defensive stance which was maintained even up until the middle ages with Constantinople as the new Rome.

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@@Belriose97 I did probably give them a little too much credit but especially during the late to early roman empire and during the Byzantine empire they did exceedingly well against the Roman army.

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Empires rarely fall, most of them are like parents whos kids grow up and become independent with time. That is not a failure but the succes of a culture/idea. Romes provinces grew more independent and romes good ideas spread beyond its borders to germans, slavs etc. Yes sometimes it gets bloody but not much more than always, pax romana were not less bloody than "the fall" was in the grand scheme of things. The whole world is as western as western is roman and roman is greek/tuscan etc. They build upon each other. After all it is simply human brainstorming, which has always created vast progress without much slowing down for long.

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[@HistoriaMilitum]

Hello Tyler, I am glad you are enjoying the channel! I guess you can call my accent Canadian, haha. Consider joining our discord channel, linked in the “About” section of the KZbin channel. We have a friendly community, and I would love to get to know you to!

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Is this a teaser for the III Augusta Episode?, happy to see you back btw

[@HistoriaMilitum]

I am afraid I won’t be able to make the 3rd Augusta’s history as exciting as the others, so I decided to cover them in this way at least. They remained in Africa for centuries, with only small detachments participating in the famous wars. But if I plan on covering their history, it will be after all the more famous legions that everyone is requesting. The 11th legion is the 2nd next video from now!

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Romans were such an amazing people so much so that today were "rediscovering" knowledge that they already had. Underwater concrete for example our modern concrete only managed to do that well about 50 years ago. Yet our concrete still doesn't last as long as theirs even though we now know the recipe for it its simply not feasible enough to mass produce in this day and age. our concrete last 100 maybe 200 years tops before becoming completely useless where you can see the structure cracking in 30 while theirs is well proven to last more than a thousand years.

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Actually the Romans can be considered rather primitive by enlightenment standards the fall of Rome was great for the development of European civilization just take a look at how eastern Romans were doing to get what I am talking about

[@spencer9095]

​@@MohamedRamadan-qi4hl yes but I dont really consider the eastern romans to be true romans anymore when I say romans i mean the roman empire at its height before it's cultural, Militaristic, Technological decline. When the empire got split between the eastern and western empires i mark it as the beginning fall where the western was most similar to traditional until it fell. Another example of rome enlightenment is their record keeping no other ancient empire we have as many records of. Also the roman people were very enlightened sexually, economically, hygienically, medically, and socially. to a point where are modern society is starting to resemble and open back up to the same practices the ancient romans practiced such as gay marriage, open relationships, deviancy, and many other things. After the roman empire fell the world fell into a dark age and christianity took hold which banned many medical practices and technologies and set up restriction on behavior that really set us back many years. If it wasn't for muslims and jews and how much openness they were to various medicines and medical practices who knows where our modern medicines may be. When the empire fell many technologies became lost to the ages not because they weren't useful or people didn't know about them but because without the empire and its mass need to build and rule large swaths of area or sustain mass amounts of people the equipment and technology become useless or unnecessary with all the raiding and unrest the followed.

[@iutarogirotto5110]

I wonder how many of those cisterns a d overall infrastructure build by the Romans are still in use today, thousands of years after they were built

[@mr.2083]

I emigrated to Tunesia a few years ago and in the village my wife is originally from they still use a few wells and cisterns that have been dated back to well before 300CE. One of them collapsed 3 years back and repairs were going on when we visited her grandparents. I helped out a few days and because they knew I work with coins at the Bardo museum I actually got 'paid' for my efforts in deteriorated coins they found. One of which (I've been able to establish after many hours of research and discussion) was minted during the reign of Domitianus, which might seem like a very trivial thing, but to me it was a very exciting discovery. I went back about a year later with the news they their little village is probably a heck of a lot older than they assumed. In turn I got showered with all kinds of pieces of metal I'm still sorting through, they were so amazed that they actually started scheduling more regular maintenance in order to pay their respects. It did me good to know that people still have much admiration for those that came before them.

[@JonEtxebeberriaRodriguez]

@@mr.2083 WOW!!! Impressive to say the least 😲

[@iutarogirotto5110]

@@mr.2083 A thousand+ year old well still in use, Romans sure knew how to make stuff to last

[@sabrina1380m]

@@iutarogirotto5110 there is a 2000 year old cistern still operating and being used by the inhabitants in the city of milev in Algeria (Mila now)

[@Georgios1821]

Great!

[@themandoesloreagain6148]

This is the way!

[@pedrocsantos8]

Salve Filaxim Historia, An interesting topic would be the time it took for legions, merchants and even the news to travel from one place to another. I know the legions could do about 15 to 20 kilometers a day, but how long could they keep up this pace? How did people travel and where did they stay? Was it safe to travel? There was some kind of "police" to protect the travelers? At that time there were much less people, so there were many more isolated places with wild animals, are there reports of animal attacks on travelers or soldiers? There would be some interesting topics to explore.

[@JonEtxebeberriaRodriguez]

Salve Pedro! In the description we have provided links with sources and further information. There is one source called the "Itinerarium Antonini". Check it out because it shows the stops and main posts on the main roads of the empire. It has it's faults as some positions are not there but you can take a good look. The original document even gave the distances between positions. Most of them fall between 30-50 km of distance. And since you asked about a history, we had one that unfortunately didn't make it into the video. An engineer of IIIrd Augusta was travelling with his retinue through Numidia because he had been sent to supervise a civilian construction in a distant city. On the road he and his party were attacked by bandits and they scaped miraculously, some of them with wounds, only to arrive half-naked to their destination. We had the dispatch he sent to headquarters detailing what happened 🤣

[@pedrocsantos8]

@@JonEtxebeberriaRodriguez Fantastic, thanks!! I will watch that with close attention. In my home town in Portugal, there are a Roman Road, very winding, because it is a mountainous area, it has always fascinated me. I always enjoyed exploring that area and discover the traces of this great civilization , this is something common to most Europeans and peoples of North Africa because there are so many traces of this great civilization.

[@theromanorder]

Thank u

[@evenleven]

Titles... You are doing it right !

[@MM22966]

Wonder how long a posting was to these distant forts, or how III Augusta managed rotations.

[@_Vladimir__Makarov_]

This needs to be a vr game

[@Skankhunt-uf4nd]

Wil you make a video about LEGIO VI VICTRIX

[@swampstyle]

My whole life I've been drawn to the Romans. Love getting information on them I recently did my ancestry. To my surprise, nothing was as it seemed. Was raised being told I was German an Cajun. Turns out. Italian, English,Scandanavian. And a percentage of Native American. 1 whole percent. I'm taking my Italian heritage as My ancestor was a Roman soldier. I feel such a connection. That's got to be it.