Sub-Roman Britain

Roman Villas Villas were built across the south of Britain during the occupation of the Romans. These were typically used as farms and also housing estates but others were not. In a villa, typically, you would find mosaic floors, hypocausts, a bath suite, a garden, fountains, fortifications, stone walls, glass windows, courtyards, corridors, a kitchen, farm buildings, painted

and Britain and conquered or attempted to conquer various types of people. Based on my reading of Tacitus' The Agricola and The Germania, I have knowledge of the life and customs of the Britons, subject of the Agricola, and the Germans, subject of the Germania. This of course being the Romans, and more specifically Tacitus,' observation and view of these groups of people. The customs of the Britons differed from that of the Romans. Britain was the largest of the islands known to the Romans, who

Last year, the city of Colchester, England decided to expand the building of a local public school due to a growing population. The land on which the school is built holds an abundant amount of archaeological information relevant to the history of Colchester. This data was only briefly reached in 1911 when amateur archaeologist, Henry Jones, was given permission to quickly excavate the site. This came about after century old human remains were discovered during the construction of the original school

professional, and more persuasive. He then used repetition to make his points clearer, and more enforced. He ties all these together, and creates a speech that appeals to everyone, and reveals his thoughts on how we should handle the conflict with Great Britain. Henry does this in a mature, and polite matter to get his point across without offending

on the island of Britain who led her people to a revolution against the Roman empire’s occupation of the country around 60 AD. Although her revolution ultimately failed, Queen Boudicca was the greatest resistance fighter in European history because she proved women could effectively fight with and lead men at a time when women carried no respect, she joined together many tribes of people to achieve a result, and she ended up posing a significant threat to Roman control over Britain. Queen Boudicca

land, the beast from the sea, the harlot, Babylon, and the dragon. The Beowulf-poet also manipulates the dragon allegory to represent Rome, but his dragon represents not Rome, pure and simple, but a hostile area of the (former) Roman empire, the Romanized Britain or the Roman-British . There is increasing consensus among critics--against Tolkien's views--that the dragon is "a different sort of creature from the Grendel tribe" (Gang 6) and that among the innumerable dragon stories "there is probably

of the Iceni tribe of modern-day East Anglia, Britain. The Iceni King Prasutagus, was an independent ally of Rome, he divided his estate between his daughters and King Nero of Rome. When Prasutagus died however, his lands were taken by Rome and the Iceni then lost their status as allies. When his wife, Boudicca, objected to this action she was flogged and her two daughters raped! She then mounted a revolt against Rome which left multiple ancient Roman cities in ruin. Sadly she was eventually defeated

This is exactly what happened to the Gaul by the Romans. The Romans conquered their region, influenced the Gaul and imported their culture. They even built mirroring cities in the Roman Gaul to further emulate the Roman culture. Once the Romans had conquered the Gaul they initially tried to take away their religion from them. Augustus (27 BCE to 14CE) “forbade the druidic religion for Roman citizens” (Tarpenning). Many of the Gaul had to become Roman citizens so ultimately this law forced them into

St. Patrick St. Patrick was born around the year 387 A.D. in present day Britain, since at the time the area Britain was controlled by the Romans that area could be considered Roman Britain. His real name, according to Bibliography, was Maewyn Succat, the name Patrick was the name he took after he was ordained. Patrick’s parents were named Conchessa and Calphurnius Succat. Patrick came from a faithful family. His father was a deacon, and his grandfather, Pontius, was a member of the clergy. His

Boudicca was the Queen of the Iceni tribe and was married to the King of the Iceni, Prasutagus. The Iceni were a tribe of Britons and their territory was in the east of England. No one really knew what Boudicca looked like but Cassius Dio, a Roman historian, said that 'She was huge and frightening to look at with a mass of ginger hair that hung to her knees. Her voice was as harsh as her looks she dressed in a multi-coloured tunic with a thick cloak fastened by a brooch flung