The land was divided annually by the magistrates, certain farms being assigned to certain families, who were forced to leave them at the expiration of the year.

They cultivated as a common property the lands allotted by the magistrates, but it was easier to summon them to the battle-field than to the plough.

Thus they were more fitted for the roaming and conquering life which Providence was to assign to them for ages, than if they had become more prone to root themselves in the soil.

The Gauls built towns and villages.

The German built his solitary hut where inclination prompted.