The Roman military machine, and the pride of the ancient world, was at its peak only 1,908 years ago, which is recent history considering we know humans have been cooking with fire for at least a million years now (some studies think 2 million)

I wish we knew who today were direct male descendents of every Roman soldier that served honorably

all male line of descent too, based on son to son to son to son. Grated many of those lineages have died out due to no kids or now sons but there should be plenty still alive today