Warfare: The Impact Of Constant Warfare On Roman Society

The impact of constant warfare on Roman society was that since there was an overexpansion of the empire. Because of the overexpansion, the dilution of the Roman society got many different cultures. When the Visigoths were conquered, the conditions of their “surrender” was that they had to join the Roman military service. They were trained and equipped by Romans that created the situation that allowed the successful. The family farms were devastated by the warfare.
The farms were eventually replaced by large estates with tenant farmers or slaves. This made an increasing cup between the rich and the poor. Many of the veterans from the war returned and found it impossible or even unprofitable to go back to their farms. Some of the veterans moved
to Rome, where they hope to find work as laborers. But most of the veterans stayed in the country as tenant farmers or hire hands. If the farms were abandoned the wealthy converted the abandon land into latifundia for growing cash crops.
Some of the crash crops were grain, olives, grape for wine, and even into cattle ranches. The upper class had tons of capital to work these estates because of profits from the war and from exploiting the provinces. The land was cheap and so was the slave labor but who wouldn’t pass that up back then. Large landholders obtained great quantities of public land and forced small farmers from it. These changes separated the people of Rome and Italy more sharply into rich and poor, landed and landless, privileged and deprived. The result from political, social, and constitutional conflict made conflict that threatened the existence of the republic.