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    The Marian reforms were putative changes to the composition and operation of the Roman army during the late Roman republic usually attributed to Gaius...
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    Traditionally, many of these changes have been attributed to the reforms of Gaius Marius (see Marian reforms), but some scholars argue that they may have happened...
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    equivalent in money and often became a prominent member of society. The Marian reforms were putative changes to the composition and operation of the Roman...
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    86 BC. In the 19th century, Marius was credited with the so-called Marian reforms, including the shift from militia levies to a professional soldiery;...
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    large quantities of "mass produced" equipment after the so-called "Marian Reforms" and subsequent civil wars led to a decline in the quality of Roman...
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  • manipular legion comprised 4,200 infantry and 300 cavalry. After the Marian reforms in 107 BC the legions were formed of 5,200 men and were restructured...
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  • pre-Marius Roman army. These were removed even before the so-called "Marian reforms", as the Triarii provided a very sturdy anchor. Sagittarii – Archers...
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    threat, along with the Jugurthine War, allegedly inspired the putative Marian reforms of the Roman legions, a view now contested by modern historians. Rome...
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  • so-called "Marian reforms" of 107 BC. Hastati appear to have been remnants of the old third class of the army under the Etruscan kings when it was reformed by...
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  • by light troops. They were eventually disbanded after the so-called "Marian reforms" of the late roman republic. According to Pat Southern, principes appear...
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    approximately 1000 velites. Velites were disbanded after the so-called "Marian reforms". Lucilius suggests that rorarii and velites were interchangeable, with...
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  • and triarii. Later, in 107 BCE, Marius would institute the so-called Marian reforms, creating the Roman legions. This system would evolve into the Late...
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    scholars would misattribute to putative reforms by noted general and statesman Gaius Marius (the so-called Marian Reforms). In the Near East, the other major...
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    maniple, each century consisting of 30–60 men. After the so-called "Marian reforms", a century was typically composed of around 80 men, with six such centuries...
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  • created after the Latin War and were dissolved after the so-called Marian reforms. Almost all the details we know of the extraordinarii are described...
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  • the body-length scutum as velites were phased out with the so-called "Marian reforms". It was used mainly by auxiliary infantry and cavalry, with the legionaries...
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    military system experienced drastic changes. Following the so-called "Marian reforms", de facto political power became concentrated under military leadership...
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    Flamininus and his brother Titus in their campaigns. After the so-called "Marian reforms", the figure of the legatus as a major second-in-command was eliminated...
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    themselves was by joining the military which became easier after the Marian reforms as soldiers were expected to pay for their own weapons. By joining the...
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    Arausio, 6 October 105 BC". www.historyofwar.org. "Collections: The Marian Reforms Weren't a Thing". 30 June 2023. Mommsen, Theodor; The History of Rome...
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    University of California Press. p. 367. ISBN 0-520-02238-6. And the Marian reforms... did not abolish the levy. Conscription continued... to the end of...
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  • Mithridates VI in the Bosporan Kingdom. Gaius Marius, to whom the putative Marian reforms of the Roman army are commonly attributed, arrives in North Africa to...
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    time the general Marius assumed command in 107 BC. (The so-called "Marian reforms" of the army hypothesised by some scholars are today seen by other scholars...
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    opened and thus convenient to their profession. Until the so-called "Marian reforms" of the Late Republic, the lower ranks of Rome's military forces were...
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    poetic, Imperial vision of the past. In the late Republic, the so-called Marian reforms supposedly did the following: lowered an existing property bar on conscription...
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    Marian Lois Robinson (née Shields; July 30, 1937 – May 31, 2024) was the mother of Michelle Obama, former first lady of the United States, and Craig Robinson...
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    clans came to regard themselves as one nation- the Zulu. The so-called Marian reforms of Rome in the military sphere are referenced by some writers as similar...
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    reforms, e.g. the abolition of slavery (William Wilberforce, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, and others), women suffrage, and prison reforms....
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  • Evangelist, (as in Marcan Priority) Marian – Mary (as in Marian apparition); Gaius Marius (as in Marian reforms) Marivaudian – Pierre de Marivaux Markovian...
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  • slightly refined during this period rather than radically reformed. Prior to these reforms, the infantry was divided into the classis of rich citizens...
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