A reconstruction of the different levels of the road discovered at Bayston Hill quarry in Shropshire. Photograph: Caroline Malim/James Reed PR
A reconstruction of the different levels of the road discovered at Bayston Hill quarry in Shropshire. Photograph: Caroline Malim/James Reed PR
Reg: All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
Attendee: Brought peace?
Reg: Oh, peace - shut up!
Of course the Britons were more aware of Rome than the Romans were of them. The Greeks were aware of the Persian Empire before the Persians were aware of them (after the Athenians joined in the Ionian attack on the city of Sardis, Darius supposedly had to ask “who are the Athenians?”). Probably 100% of the people of the island nation of Dominica are aware of the U.S., while probably only a minority of Americans are aware there is such a nation as Dominica (a former British colony in the Lesser Antilles).
If the English were so great at the time and were not that influenced by the Romans, why did their civilization go to he** after the Romans pulled out? Years of technology was lost with the Roman withdrawal and education of the masses was non existent after the Romans left.
The road goes ever on!
Right off the top, to me it smacks of Black history month type revisionism
This is a very poorly written article. It rambles all over the place.
