Marius also granted citizenship and land to all Roman soldiers. The reforms also put the responsibility of supplying and managing an army in the hands of the general.
The reforms revolutionized the Roman military machine, introducing the standardized legionary, the cohort unit and drastically altered the property and weaponry requirements for recruitment. Marius proposed radical alterations with the intention of creating a more professional, permanent and dynamic Roman army. Centuries of military campaigning throughout the Mediterranean and increasing invasions and uprisings across Roman territory had stretched the human and physical resources of the Roman army. The reforms originated as a reaction to the military and logistical stagnation of the Roman Republic in the late 2nd century BC. The Marian reforms were reforms of the ancient Roman army implemented in 107 BC by the statesman Gaius Marius, for whom they were later named.
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