The Roman army acts as a primary vehicle for imperial cultural integration

Evidence

So the Roman army became a kind of cultural glue binding the empire together: its language was Latin, its culture was Roman, and retired soldiers frequently settled in the provinces where they had served and acquired families and Roman citizenship. — Stephen Kershaw, A Brief History of the Roman Empire, 414

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Stephen Kershaw, A Brief History of the Roman Empire, 414
• XREF: connects to: Western civilization continues to be influenced by the Roman Empire. — Stephen Kershaw, A Brief History of the Roman Empire, 1983; Imperial European armies recruited heavily from ethnic minorities and colonized peoples — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1520