Roman Britain

conquering peoples and acquirement of riches. Throughout the centuries, the Roman Empire had many RISES and declines as does any world power that survives for as long as the Roman Empire did. The question is why this decline was the last decline, what led Rome to a point that the Empire failed to recover as it had in the past. Roman armies had conquered many lands and peoples under even more consults, caesars, and emperors. The Roman border grew over centuries, acquiring riches and cultures,…

Roman Government and United States Government The Republican government of Ancient Rome can be said to be the prototype of the U.S. Constitutional government with emphasis on the word constitution. The United States government is a primarily constitutional government since the constitution drafted by the Founding Fathers has been the most important document since the founding of the country’s government system up to the present (Brice, 2015 p. 1). There are those who contend that the framework…

is another trait valued by Roman society. In describing Caesar, Plutarch says “his expedition into Britain was the most famous testimony of his courage. For he was the first who brought a navy into the western ocean, or who sailed into the Atlantic with an army to make war” (Lives). Caesar was an Emperor who expanded the Roman Empire and followed the Roman tradition of military conquest. His courageous military feats were different from the relative inactivity of the Roman rulers during…

ranks of Roman politics and military, partly due to his relationship with Trajan. After Hadrian's father died in 85 AD, Hadrian was entrusted to the care of two men. One of them, a cousin of his father, later became emperor Trajan. As an adopted son of Trajan, Hadrian would go on to rule the Roman Empire from 117 CE to 138 CE, a time that was still considered in the Pax Romana. Hadrian, one of the “Five Good Emperors”, was a…

During the beginning centuries in which the whole of Ireland was owned and governed by Britain, political issues were raised from the way in which Britain treated the people of Ireland and furthermore used them only to profit for the motherland of England. The British government boldly put forward governed acts against the Irish working people; these acts were established throughout the 17th century. The way in which the British government drove their proposed acts on Ireland made it harsher for…

Caesar wanted Britain for its gold, lead, pearls and other jewelry (Historynet.com). Caesar trained his men very well; he taught his men special skills in war, he also taught them formation, how to attack in a group (Historynet.com). His army was large and skillful, one…

The movie Centurion follows the path of Roman officer Quintus Dias in the year of 117 A.D. The movie begins with Dias escaping from the Picts, a tribe which is preventing Rome from conquering northern Britain. Dias joins the Ninth Legion to fight against the Picts. The legion has a scout, Etain, to guide them to the Picts. However, Etain is not on the Roman side and leads the legion into a trap. Most of the soldiers die, but a few survive. The Picts take Roman General Virilus as a prisoner of…

In the Roman conquest of Gaul and Britannia, the Romans faced many Gallic and Briton tribes, most of which rebelling against their aggressive expansion in the north under the guise of claiming the tribes were barbaric savages. In Julius Caesars “The Gallic wars” he says tells of how “All Gaul is divided into three parts.”(Caesar, p.1) These three parts were inhabited by the native tribes of the Belgae in what we would now call Belgium, the Nervii and the Helvetii in what is now known as France…

iron was at large because of its availability in abundance. They started spreading across rapidly and by the end of the 1st millennium B.C. their cultural group had already spread up and down the Danube and Rhine, also covering Gaul, Ireland and Britain, across central Europe into northern Italy and northern Spain. Since most of the Celtic tribes used to do their journey’s across Europe, which…

Gaius Julius Caesar, also know as Caesar, was a Roman politician, a general, and notable author of Latin prose. Julius Caesar was s very successful leader. Caesar played a budge rule in the rise of the Roman republic. Julius Caesar extended the Roman Empire and seized power. He also made himself dictator of Rome. On August 9 , 48 B.C. Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus also known as Pompey the great, prepared his army to face Julius Caesar. Caesar's troops were more experienced then Pompey's. Pompey had…