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How Rome Fed 100,000 Soldiers During War?

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How Rome Fed 100,000 Soldiers During War? How did Rome actually feed an army of over a hundred thousand soldiers, for years, across deserts and frozen frontiers, without a single truck or can of food? In this video we cover how the Roman army solved the one problem that could break any empire before a single battle even started: keeping that many men fed, every single day, for as long as the war lasted. We go through the ration system, the biscuit they carried for weeks that could also poison an entire camp if it was baked wrong, and the one real disaster where an army of a hundred thousand men nearly starved because of a single mistake with the baggage train. The interesting part is that this wasn't luck or feasts, it was math, and that math almost never broke for four hundred years straight. What do you think about it, tell me in the comments, and also subscribe for more of these kinds of videos on Ancient Rome. #Rome #AncientRome #RomanArmy #RomanSoldier #RomanLogistics #RomanHistory #Archaeology #RomanEmpire #AncientCivilization #HistoryDocumentary

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