side from the normal running head on in to battle. Due to state support from Gaius Gracchus, new improvements were made to outfit this military to peaks they had not yet discovered. Gracchus implemented to make the state responsible for the supply of equipment and clothing to the legionaries and to forbid the enlistment of youths under seventeen. In doing so he created a "professional army", not just a group of citizens trained to protect. Marius however took the final step and opened the army to anyone who was poor, but fit and willing to fight. Rather than supplementing his ranks with the poor head count, he made an army out of them. These vol
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