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plutopos@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Did you know Roman citizenship was transferred by the mother? And the main way to obtain it otherwise was serving in the military?
This is because men went at war, so they were likely to marry foreign women, so their children had no citizenship, so they had to go to war too.
The cycle repeats, boom infinite soldiers hack
isles@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
PugJesus@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Not quite. Roman legionaries usually married citizen women (or freedwomen), while auxiliaries had citizenship granted to themselves and their wife and children upon completion of service.