Complete the account of the Marian reform.
In 107 BCE Marius dropped the ______ requirement and enrolled the landless. The new soldier’s farm on discharge would come not from the Senate but from his ______ — and from that moment Rome’s armies were effectively ______.
Word bank: property · general · private · citizenship · public
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- Removing the property qualification changed who soldiers depended on.
- Their reward now came from their commander rather than the state.
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In 107 BCE Marius dropped the property requirement and enrolled the landless. The new soldier’s farm on discharge would come not from the Senate but from his general — and from that moment Rome’s armies were effectively private.
A sensible personnel fix with a seventy-year fuse. Sulla’s marches, the Triumvirate, and the Rubicon are all the same wire carrying current to different hands.
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