WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Each legion consisted of 4, 200–5, 000 infantry and 300 cavalry, while the allied units had an equal number of infantry but three times as many cavalry (900 cavalry per unit).

Detailed explanation-2: -It was divided up into groups called ‘legions’. Each legion had between 4, 000 and 6, 000 soldiers. A legion was further divided into groups of 80 men called ‘centuries’. The man in charge of a century was known as a ‘centurion’.

Detailed explanation-3: -A legion was nominally composed of 6, 000 soldiers, and each legion was divided up into 10 cohorts, with each cohort containing 6 centuria.

Detailed explanation-4: -The subsequent organisation of legions varied greatly over time but legions were typically composed of around five thousand soldiers. During much of the republican era, a legion was divided into three lines, each of ten maniples.

Detailed explanation-5: -The legion was the basic unit of Rome’s standing army of career soldiers, the legionaries, who were all Roman citizens and fought primarily as foot-soldiers (infantry).