They brought urban life, roads, permanent military garrisons, centralised government, taxation, their language – Latin – and later Christianity to all the lands they conquered. The Romans have left us a rich variety of written and archaeological sources about their lives in Britain.
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Before the Romans arrived there was no written language in Britain. They changed all that by teaching important Britons how to read and write and how to speak ...
Roman civilization thus took root in Britain; its growth was more obvious in urban circles than among the peasants and weakest in the resistant highland zone.
The farther away from the civilizing influence of Rome and the more mysterious and unknown the land, the more fearsome and barbaric its inhabitants. In this ...