A: At its peak, the Roman army extended all around the Mediterranean Sea and most of the rest of Europe. Much of what is now England and France, Belgium and The Netherlands, Spain and Protugal, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, part of Germany, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey Israel, Syria, Arabia, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco constituted the Roman empire. All this was ruled by the Romans from their base in Italy.
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A huge army was needed to maintain control over these regions and the costs involved were tremendous. There were continual minor wars and skirmishes along the edges of the empire, which meant that large garrisons of soldiers had to be maintained.
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