So the last post in my series on Sparta is up (here: https://acoup.blog/2019/09/27/collections-this-isnt-sparta-part-vii-spartan-ends/ …) - it contains links to the entire series for those who want to binge. So now it's time for the tweetstorm about the post-series. 1/23
You'll have to forgive me for being a touch brusque, but no. The armies with which the Romans conquered Sicily, North Africa, Spain, Greece, Gaul, Illyria, Anatolia, Syria, Egypt, inter alia, were made of two groups of Italian peasants: with Roman citizenship and without.
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The army of the imperial period was half Roman citizens and half auxiliaries, but many of those auxiliaries were recruited from the posh, civilized parts of the empire. Archers from Crete is the standard example.
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As for the Han Chinese, while yes, they recruited auxiliaries from everywhere, the core of the army, as I understand it, remained the ethnically Han professional infantry, which was still the core of the army when the dynasty collapsed.
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