How did the Romans tame Britania?

Question

Would this method work in today's world?

Answer 1

They, by force, conquered much of Britain. The Emperor Hadrian, had a wall built to separate the conquered from those who were not conquered, and this kept relative peace.

Answer 2

Most Roman campaigns of occupation followed the same pattern.
A bloody campaign followed by assimilation. This means making a minority local leader boss then romanizing the province by showing them how good the new life is. That is how Britain was taken lets face it the army's better and they have nice things like baths and sewers.
Now to clear up a few point
jb1 the Pict's went a problem for the Romans the Antonin wall further North than Hadrian's wall and Hadrian's wall were primarily for ensuring tax was gathered from imports. The Romans soundly defeated the Pict's in 84 AD at the battle of Mons Grupius
near Aberdeen ( get a map if you need to). The Romans had sailed around Scotland and knew what was there and realised that it was more profitable to trade and not settle.
Colorshi in the Roman period all of Britain was Celtic the Romans didn't wipe them out. The reason that the Celts have been driven to the extremities of the land is because of the Germanic tribes such as Saxons Angles and Jute's who invaded at around 410 AD These tribes also harassed the Romans in a fashion similar to the latter Vikings. It was thes tribes who eventualy became the English

Answer 3

Well it was with a lot of effort over many years.

Julius Ceaser invaded Britain twice but both his campaigns were essentially ineffective though they did largely end British aid to Gaul at the time.

Later under the reign of Claudius, the conquest was begun. It was a tough campaign and very expensive to the Romans but by the Mid 60's AD they had pacified much of the island. The rebellion of Boadicea was a massive setback but eventually the conquest resumed. Some parts like Scotland were never totally conquered though.

This way then involved a lot of bloodshed and a general suppression of the people. I guess it could work but at heavy cost.

Answer 4

Many countries were conquered because they did not have uniting centralized governments. When the Romans established a colony on the south of the England, they only had to beat a few tribes in different battles. They initially maintained their position by establishing trade with different Druid tribes. They became complacent and started raiding villages and just taking what they wanted instead of paying for it. When they attacked a Druid tribe and beat its Queen, all of the Druid tribes became outraged and united to drive the Romans off of the Island.

Answer 5

The name Brittainia, was coined by the romans for what we call The British Isles today and let me assure you they tamed neither the welsh,irish and the mighty scots.They even built a wall{hadrians wall} to protect themselves from the scots ."tame Britania" ...only in fairy stories.

Answer 6

The Romans were vicious and accomplished and technologically superior, militarily. They grabbed as much of Britain as they cared to by bashing heads and so on. Sometimes that works, sometimes it doesn't - they never succeeded in "taming" the Welsh, for all they tried. Doesn't seem to work that well now, either.

Answer 7

They used the same tactics that worked in Gaul. Make an alliance with one tribe then use that tribe against the other Britons.
The Romans used disciplined troops, superior weapons and tactics plus something very simple: roads - to enforce the Pax Romana. It does work in today's world. Bush wants to isolate China thus forms alliances with countries surrounding the Chinese. Expediency makes for strange bed-fellows

Answer 8

They didn't. They only managed to subdue most of England and some of Wales. Scotland was mostly untouched and they had to build Hadrians wall to stop the Scots from attacking them.

Answer 9

By causing internal strife among the natve tribes, getting them to work against each other and ignore external threats until it was too late.

"Divide and conquer."

Absolutely it works in today's world.

Answer 10

Tame? honey, that's funny. More like beat them into submission. Iceni...GONE. Celts, Picts and Gaels....driven to the extreme's of the islands....
Tame? what crap history books are you reading?