Weapons
The minimum number of weapons a legionnaire would carry at a time.
What is 3 weapons?
The armor that was worn along with a central torso covering.
What are greaves, padded cloth, or layered metal?
One position that was achieved with the scutum.
What is testudo?
The roman general who crossed the rubicon and started a civil war.
Who is Julius Caesar?
Identify the pilum, double points for identifying the other javelin.
What is the bottom image and a veretum?
The function of the pilum.
What is throwing to wound or impede before fighting?
What was the lorica squamata?
The reason for open ears on soldier's helmets.
The man responsible for the Marian reforms.
Who is Gaius Marius?
Compare and contrast these two helmets and dertime who would wear them.
First one is a transverse plume worn by a centurion and the second is a longitudinal plume worn by a legionary.
The places where weapons were constructed.
What are Romon controlled provinces?
The name of the layered plate armor worn until the 4th century C.E. Kennan and Alice are not allowed to answer this question.
What is the lorica segmentata?
The type of plume worn by centurions.
What is a transverse plume?
The siege where Caesar defeated Gallic general Vercingetorix.
What is the Seige of Alesia?
Name and differentiate all of the fighting weapons used by a legionary.
What are gladius, pilum, spatha, and pugio?
The difference between a spatha and a gladius.
What is length, width, and construction?
The reason centurions favored the lorica hamata.
What is lower maintenance and greater coverage?
The name of the pack which soldiers used to carry important equipment.
What is the sarcina?
A key engagement of the Second Punic War of 216 B.C.E where the Romans were completely crushed by Hannibal's forces.
What is the battle of Cannae?
Name all the parts of this Roman sarcina.
What are cooking equipment, entrenchment tools, leather satchel, waterskin, and bedroll.
The smaller javelin used by velites and possibly used by legionaries.
What is a veretum?
The type of armor worn more often by signiferes.
What is the lorica squamata?
The secondary use of the scutum, enabled by the central boss.
What is punching/hand to hand combat?
A famous battle demonstrating the shortcomings of the testudo formation in which Marcus Licinius Crassus was defeated by the Parthians.
What is the Battle of Carrhae?
Identify all the pieces of equipment in the picture provided.
Pilum, gladius, scutum, galea/helmet with transverse plume, lorica segmentata.