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Originally Posted by Feuerbach
I'm not an expert, but 400,000 men seems to me unrealitically high concerning Rome.
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Rome had steady supply of grain from North Africa and Black Sea area (and both places were geographically much different than they are today), so they could afford lot more soldiers than later Europeans could imagine until they discovered cheap corn and potato in 17th Century. As you can easily see, as soon as they got the food they were able to raise much larger armies than their medieval forefathers. Food was not such a big limitation to river-valley civilizations in the East until 18th Century, so they were always able to raise large armies.