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That depends on how big they were but it isn't any different than how many it would take you to walk a mile.

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What was the name of an ancient Roman mile?

The Romans also used the word mile, derived from the latin mille passus mille passus translates as 1,000 paces, one pace being two steps. So a Roman mile is 1,000 paces or 5,000 Roman feet. The current definition of a mile as 5,280 feet


What was the foot based off of in the time of the roman empire?

The Roman foot was based off of the Roman inch, just as our feet and inches are related. However the Romans had nothing as simple as our inch, foot, yard, mile measurement. They had several length measurements before they finally reached the term for the Roman mile. The Roman foot was 12 unicae, (inches) and was called a pes. Five pedes (plural of pes) was 1 passus. 1000 passus was a mile.


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What did the Roman Empire use to measure distance?

Basically, Romans measured dry capacity by the modus and wet capacity by the amphora. Area was measured by the iugerum and distance was measured by the mile or mille passum which literally meant one thousand paces.


Which modem unit of measure derives from counting the steps of roman soldiers?

The min Roman units for measuring length were the digitus (finger), the uncia or pollex (inch or thumb), the palums (palm width), palmus maior (palm length), the pes (plural piedes, foot), the cubitus (cubit, 1 1/2 piedes), the passus (pace, 5 piedes), the stadium (plural stadia, 625 piedes), and the mille passuum or milliarium (plural millaria, mile, 5,000 piedes). The foot was not taken from measuring the steps of soldiers. It was based on the average length of a foot. The British adopted the foot as unit of measurement, but it is longer than that of the Romans. A Roman foot was 0.971 British ft.