HIST 1001 Chapter : Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire
Document Summary
The movie the gladiator shows a historically accurate account of how the romans would have fought. External problems: two news enemies appeared on the borders, the germans and the. 1500 bc in the area of the baltic sea in the north, they began to drift south and reached the rhine river in about 200 bc. The rhine was essentially the roman border for the. Basic social organization was the clan made up of five to ten families interrelated and for military purposes they formed into tribes. They hunted and fought and all the other work was done by women and slaves. System of government was loyalty to the chief, he was the judge, the war leader and the person who basically made the decisions. He always had a very close group of followers, a few men who were with him at basically all times, his immediate and loyal retainers. The germans never had a united political empire.
