Hadrian’s (Short Lived) Wall The meaning of success is altered by your definition of the word, or what you consider it to be. Hadrian’s Wall successfully served its purpose by separating the Romans from the Barbarians.
Before we get into the wall, we are going to examine a picture of it and see if it can tell us any vital information.
By analyzing this picture we can tell that this photo was taken in modern time and tell us that Hadrian’s wall was very well built, as it was built around 118 AD and is still somewhat standing today. As we can see, the wall is pretty long and is built strategically on top of the hill. This tells us that they thought having a height advantage was important, as it is for war, so that the wall might have been used to keep attacks out and/or engage them in combat for their fortifications. This wall is also built out of stone, which is very important to notice as it indicates that the Romans were very rich in materials and could afford to use stone to build the wall instead of dirt or wood. …show more content…
As later in history, about 300 AD to be exact, barbaric tribes started to venture into Roman territories (English). This would prove to be a major downfall of the Romans later in history, but, still relevant to Hadrian’s Wall, which was constructed in 118 AD (8 Reasons). Hadrian decided his wall should be built and manned with close to 15,000 troops (English). This was established to keep the barbarians off of the Roman’s soil and to defend against barbaric attacks. And there were no recorded attacks against the wall or attempted invasions while Hadrian was emperor. But, when Hadrian died in 138 AD, Marcus Aurelius took over as emperor and abandoned the wall. This would prove to be a huge mistake over time as around 180 years later, the Romans would begin to fall, their fall having to do in part with the attacking
Before we get into the wall, we are going to examine a picture of it and see if it can tell us any vital information.
By analyzing this picture we can tell that this photo was taken in modern time and tell us that Hadrian’s wall was very well built, as it was built around 118 AD and is still somewhat standing today. As we can see, the wall is pretty long and is built strategically on top of the hill. This tells us that they thought having a height advantage was important, as it is for war, so that the wall might have been used to keep attacks out and/or engage them in combat for their fortifications. This wall is also built out of stone, which is very important to notice as it indicates that the Romans were very rich in materials and could afford to use stone to build the wall instead of dirt or wood. …show more content…
As later in history, about 300 AD to be exact, barbaric tribes started to venture into Roman territories (English). This would prove to be a major downfall of the Romans later in history, but, still relevant to Hadrian’s Wall, which was constructed in 118 AD (8 Reasons). Hadrian decided his wall should be built and manned with close to 15,000 troops (English). This was established to keep the barbarians off of the Roman’s soil and to defend against barbaric attacks. And there were no recorded attacks against the wall or attempted invasions while Hadrian was emperor. But, when Hadrian died in 138 AD, Marcus Aurelius took over as emperor and abandoned the wall. This would prove to be a huge mistake over time as around 180 years later, the Romans would begin to fall, their fall having to do in part with the attacking