Why did the Romans love the wars?

Answer 1

Most probably because the Greeks and Romans could afford to enjoy entertainent during their era. It could've been a rush for spectators with gambling and money involved. This is based a little on my limited year 9 history knowledge and more on my personal opinion hehe

Answer 2

The same reason we all do. It gives us a sense of facing death without any real consequence. It is a real good "drama". It is real exciting. And specifically it is a confirmation of social rank, a Roman citizen sits in the stands while "a heathen" is thrown into some perilous situation.

Similar "bloodsports" have existed in many other societies than Rome and they continue to thrive in the modern world. Many third world countries have established bloodshed events, usually accompanied with gambling

Answer 3

It depends. Different wars could have different causes, some of them were:

· Expansion. Some wars were fought for this reason. However, this type of war was a minority of the number of wars fought by the Romans.

· Personal Glory. The glory of winning a war was appealing to military commanders and emperors

· Being attacked. Examples were the Second Punic War where Hannibal, the Carthaginian general attacked Italy; The Three Mithridatic Wars, king Mithridates of Pontus(in northwestern Turkey) attacked the Romans in western Turkey and tried to attack them in Greece; Domitian's Dacian Wars, which were punitive expeditions against the Dacians (in Romania and Moldova) because they kept crossing the river Danube to raid territories of the Roman Empire and Trajan's Dacian Wars where he conquered Dacia to bring this problem to an end.

· Fear of being attacked.An example was the fear that some Gaul peoples were migrating southwards close to Italy and threaten it, which was the origin of the Gallic Wars.

· Concerns about political instability. Examples are the annexation of mainland Greece which followed Rome being drawn into wars there to support Greek states which were allies of Rome during conflict between Greek states and aimed at ending political instability there as well as retaining Roman control; the turning of Syria and Judea into client states because there were civil wars in these areas which came to be close to the frontier of the empire.

· Rebellions. The Romans were ruthless when there were rebellions. The most famous example is the First Roman Jewish-War. The Jews pushed the Romans soldiers out of Jerusalem and attacked Romans around Judea. The Romans responded by sending armies, storming Jerusalem, looting it, destroying the temple and taking 10,000 prisoners as slaves.

· Defence. From the third century AD on, the task of the Roman army became the defence of the vast frontiers of the empire which were under constant attack by outsiders.

· Internal political instability.There was quite a number of Romans civil wars.

Answer 4

For remuneration in some form , to further and protect Roman interests , because of conscription , and in the hopes of retiring with an allotment of land by the Roman government .

Answer 5

because they won the battles alot

Answer 6

They where violant race.

Answer 7

cuz the liked ppl fightin to death