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What is more interesting to me is both Civilizations decided that a road should go through the area, typically roads served some commercial or military purpose that apparently both decided needed that huge an expenditure of manpower to build.
If they knew so much about Roman ways then why didn’t Boadicea infiltrate the woods behind the Roman legion at Watling Street? Or at least set fire to them? Top 5 preventable worst defeats of all time. imho
Probably any empire serves as an aggregator, innovator and purveyor of knowledge. Peoples on the periphery of an empire would be involved with it and so acquiring and passing knowledge. The ending of an empire would then isolate the peoples it had connected.
Or so it seems to me.
Where are the toll booths?