Western Civilization I / Unit 7 WC1 0618 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Auxiliaries, Praetorians, and Citizenship by Service
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The idea
Auxiliaries were non-citizen subjects, Celts, North Africans, Syrians, as numerous as the legions, the anchor's one hundred fifty thousand in twenty-three. Claudius granted citizenship after twenty-five years. The Praetorian Guard, nine cohorts at higher pay, guarded and sometimes made emperors.
In practice
Latin, mixed units and military families as assimilation.
Where people slip
Emperors from Claudius on knew the Guard's power. Learn it for unit 08.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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