commander in chief

Autocracy and oligarchy are considered the two major types of dictatorship.

Titus Lartius

: an emperor of Japan.

“Rex” is Latin for king, and “imperator” was another word for “emperor.” The term actually meant “commander of the armies,” but that title was reserved for Caesar (the emperor) and has since become the basis for the English word “emperor.”

Emperors are generally recognized to be of the highest monarchic honour and rank, surpassing kings. Both emperors and kings are monarchs, but emperor and empress are considered the higher monarchical titles.

Imperator as an imperial title After Augustus established the Roman Empire, the title imperator was generally restricted to the emperor, though in the early years of the empire it would occasionally be granted to a member of his family.

Imperator : Emperor / supreme military commander. In Republican times the title of Imperator was given to a general by his troops after an especially great victory.

In later years the formal title for the emperor was augustus (meaning “The elevated one”, after the first, Augustus), and the heir was called caesar (after the famous Caesar).

More generally, modern historical scholars assert that merchants from the Eastern part of the Roman Empire were in contact with the peoples of China, Sri Lanka, India and the Kushana Empire.

legatus

The smallest unit in an army is the squad, which contains 7 to 14 soldiers and is led by a sergeant. Three or four squads make up a platoon, which has 20 to 50 soldiers and is commanded by a lieutenant. Two or more platoons make up a company, which has 100 to 250 soldiers and is commanded by a captain or a major.

A legion was nominally composed of 6,000 soldiers, and each legion was divided up into 10 cohorts, with each cohort containing 6 centuria. The centurion thus nominally commanded about 100 men, and there were 60 centurions in a legion.