THE ROMAN INVASION In reality the invasion of Britain was a war of prestige. The ruler of Rome was just crowned and the senate had disagreed with making Claudius king, so he did something that was guaranteed to secure his position, he conquered a country. “It is a mistake to regard the ‘Ancient Britons’, as we used to call them, as a single nation, for by the time Caesar [and Claudius Agricola] came, Britain had already been the home of many races” (Priestley 3). When the Claudian invasion came to this new place called Britain, they had encountered a tribe of the natives. The Britons there had made a great effort in trying to protect their land but the Romans were too much for them and they had been defeated. Conquering the tribe had left
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Due to that it made Rome a very easy target to take over. “The end of [an] empire is always messy, and Roman Britain was no exception. No clear decision to ‘decolonize’ Britain was made. Instead the garrison was run down over a generation, and then remnant was simply cast adrift to fend for itself” (The Fall). The fall of Rome was inevitable, Rome was after all past its Golden Age, the Romans themselves were also too relaxed and were not savages they were back then conquering country after country; the Romans were now domesticated no longer the savages they once were. Which in return made them weak and vulnerable against the savages they had to face after the Romans came back to defend their …show more content…
“By approving Christianity, the Roman state directly undermined its religious traditions. Finally, by this time, Romans considered their emperor a god. But the Christians belief in one god-who was not the emperor weakened the authority and credibility of the emperor” (The Fall of the Roman Emperor). Since Christianity only worshipped one god, the once adherent pagans who had once worshipped numerous gods quickly converted to Catholicism and started to fully believe in the faith. An additional problem leading up to their fall was that over the years leading up to the fall there were impractical political amateurs that were leading
Due to that it made Rome a very easy target to take over. “The end of [an] empire is always messy, and Roman Britain was no exception. No clear decision to ‘decolonize’ Britain was made. Instead the garrison was run down over a generation, and then remnant was simply cast adrift to fend for itself” (The Fall). The fall of Rome was inevitable, Rome was after all past its Golden Age, the Romans themselves were also too relaxed and were not savages they were back then conquering country after country; the Romans were now domesticated no longer the savages they once were. Which in return made them weak and vulnerable against the savages they had to face after the Romans came back to defend their …show more content…
“By approving Christianity, the Roman state directly undermined its religious traditions. Finally, by this time, Romans considered their emperor a god. But the Christians belief in one god-who was not the emperor weakened the authority and credibility of the emperor” (The Fall of the Roman Emperor). Since Christianity only worshipped one god, the once adherent pagans who had once worshipped numerous gods quickly converted to Catholicism and started to fully believe in the faith. An additional problem leading up to their fall was that over the years leading up to the fall there were impractical political amateurs that were leading