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How did Rome grow into an empire? Administration played a major role. The Romans were good at organizing themselves and as a result were very good at ruling large territories. This was of incredible importance in a world where communication generally was only as fast as a man or a horse. Without it Rome would never have expanded nearly as far or been able to move the vast resources it needed to move around its empire. At one point The city of Rome was being supplied with grain not from Italy or Gaul but from Egypt. To import a reliable food source from so far away when communication was so slow is a staggering achievement that would have been impossible without excellent administrative capability. ancient Roman empire map- Roman empire spanned 3 continents: Europe, Africa, and Asia The Romans also assimilated the native population or Romanised them. Building things like bath houses, public toilets, aqueducts gave the native people of a conquered land lots of reasons to want the Romans. The Romans didn't only use there technology to get a native people on side being part of the empire gave a Roman baths people a large amount of trade opportunity with its extensive road network and organization bringing wealth into newly conquered lands. Also Roman auxiliary soldiers never served in the province where they were raised so the soldiers in a province would be unlikely to harbour sympathy for the locals. This worked so well that even though the British people had been such a nightmare to conquer when Rome abandoned Britain the people not only wished her to stay but called themselves Roman not British or Celtic etc. hence the Romano British. Rome's army played a major part in the expansion of the empire, but first. The Roman army wasn't always as portrayed by Hollywood. Countless professional seemingly invincible legions clad in segmented armor behind a solid wall of imperial red shields. In fact at the time when Hannibal Barca brought Rome to its knees it's army was none of these things. It was not professional far from invincible poorly equipped and trained, at least in comparison to Rome's later armies. For a Polybian era Roman army was made up of citizens who owned some land and bought their own equipment and after the campaign season went back to being civilians again. The man who turned this not all that impressive army into the one the even today is used as a model for modern army's was Gaius Marius. It was his reforms that would in time bring about the legions people today are familiar with. Even though the Roman legion became the greatest fighting force the world had ever known this was not what made the empire grow. What did was a promise that Marius made to his legionaries, that after their service to Rome they would each get a pension in the form of a plot of land from which they could draw a living. The problem was the senate refused to give up land for Marius men, so he conquered some and settle them on it. This pattern of a legion conquering land to provide space to settle veterans was what made the empire grow and this only stopped with the emperor Hadrian when the Legion began to garrison land and not conquer it. This marked the end of the great Imperial Roman legion as less citizens wanted to join if there was effectively no ancient Roman military pension or loot. Europe would never see an army like it till the days of Napoleon. an ancient Roman road- the Roman empire lasted so long due to its excellent transportation system and ability to communicate all over the empire Roman aqueduct- carried water from its source (reservoir or a lake) to the cities; provided fresh drinking and bathing water to large expanding towns/cities