This amendment was supposed to be used for a militia, but is now expanded to all citizens.
European leaders responded to Islamic expansion in a very violent way. Following the initial incursions of the Islamic forces in those years, the European leaders decided it was time to take up arms and fight them in their own lands - what followed were the Crusades.
Free born women in Rome were cives or citizens and they could work and be named in stories, not frequently but they were.
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