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One of the more important roles of the army very likely was introducing Roman culture. Not in the sense of teachiong the natzioves lation or building museums, but in the sense of creating demand for goods and services that, once established, would also be bought or used by natives. Add to that the establishment of certain routines of urban life in their canabae that the locals would fall into - when to eat, when to go to the baths, what day to have religious celebrations, how civic associations work, that kind of thing. It was likely a two-way exchange, but in the West the Roman element was probaly a lot more influential in the cities. After all, they made them - often enough physically built big parts of them. <p></p><i></i>
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There was certainly a centurion at Carlisle a centurio regionarius. He is referred to in the Vindolanda letters. This mirrors similar arrangements in Egypt. <p></p><i></i>
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