125- The Best Defence is a Good Defence

The History of Rome

Mike Duncan

History, Education

4.8 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2011

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Over the course of his reign Diocletian instituted a number of reforms to the military structure that helped transform the legions into a new kind of army.

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1:17.4	Hello and welcome to the history of Rome.
1:21.5	Episode 125 The best defense is a good defense.
1:29.2	Over the centuries, the Roman legions had been transformed and then re-transformed.
1:34.3	Anytime the old way of getting things done, stopped getting things done.
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