Rome was a very powerful empire. They had strong armies, organized into legions. Legions were sorted into a group of soldiers of about 60 to 120 soldiers. The Etruscans built a number of cities, surronded by a thick wall. This wall was used to keep unwanted characters out of their empire. The Romans, being so powerful conquered several Etruscan cities. Rome was so powerful that Hannibal, a general, that attacked the Romans, was unable to conquer Rome because he and his troops couldn't get over the huge wall built around the empire. They couldn't get over the wall because they didn't have enough heavy equipment. Hannibal and his troops roamed the countryside of southern Italy for 15 years. Hannibal lost his first battle when Rome attacked Carthage.

Romans used a lot of warfare. They used it for things like; battling, and gladitorial games. People in the gladitorial games would use this warefare to defend themselves, and to fight with. Rome was all about the honour. Romans battled with these weapons. They would use catpults in big battles, and they would carry wooden sticks, that were lit on fire. With these weapons, Rome was a successful empire because they never lost a battle, and their armies were very organized, and knew what they were doing. Romans had high class weapons. Armour was worn to protect the soldiers from the other armies weapons/warfare. The 'Custos Armorum' was in charge of the weapons/warfare and equipment. Romans had a military building where they borrowed weapons from wherever they could find. The Romans Armies moved on foot into where they were battling. The Roman Military was responsible for protecting the vast territory of the Roman Empire, and they succeeded! In the colosiem the people that weren't gladiators had chariots. Sometimes the gladiators killed thhe people. But the chariots had spikes on the wheels to get the gladiators legs off. They had maces to swing at people and hit them. Bows and Cross Bows were to shoot people from a distance. They had javlins to kill people and use them as spears.

Gladiators would fight for the emperor in a way to intertain all the people.

They had metal maces to kill people with. They swung them around on chains and they hit people and did alot of damage to the person. They had swords too. They cut people with the swords and killed them. They had spikes on the wheels of the chariots to chut peoples legs off when they got close to the chariot. They used Wooden sheilds to protect themselves. Arrows stick into the sheilds because they are wooden but it still protects the people. They also had metal sheilds, but they mostly used the wooden sheilds because they were lighter than the metal.

The Ceasar would make the gladiators fight people when they wanted them to die. They would have lions in the collosium so that the person they want killed would be faught close enough to the lions and they could grab them. Sometimes a lucky man would kill a lion but it was rare to happen. All of these men were slaves but were called gladiators. They were made to do this. They had to earn the emporors likings so they could be free'd.