Republican levy
Italy to a Mediterranean win.
Start with the Italian alliance, not with a Hollywood helmet. The Republic wins as a system.
Civil war is not a side quest; it is the imperial origin.
Timeline
- Cannae
A Republican disaster that did not end the alliance system.
- Zama
Scipio and the end of the Hannibalic War.
- Marius's consulships
The professionalisation debate's named hinge.
- Social War
Citizenship as a military crisis.
- Caesar's civil war
A provincial army as a political subject.
- Actium
Octavian's war at sea; the imperial preface.
- Year of the Four Emperors
Frontier armies making emperors.
- Trajan's Dacia
The column as propaganda and source.
- Adrianople
A late field-army disaster in the public file.
- West's conventional end
A classroom date; the East continues.
Eras
Professional and civil war
Marius to Actium.
High empire
Pay, forts, a famous peace with wars on the edge.
Third-century crisis
Usurpation as a military rhythm.
Late West
Diocletian-Constantine structures; Vegetius; a classroom end.
Milestones
Zama, 202 BCE
A levy system survives Hannibal.
Actium, 31 BCE
A civil war ends in a navy's photograph.
Adrianople, 378
A late army's public disaster.
476 is a classroom door, not the only end. Name the East.
Vegetius is a late mood, not a universal key.