what did the romans do for england?

Answer 1

They introduced public holidays! 176 days per year to be exact - how did they get anything done?

Also:

Aqueducts, coins, roads (mainly for moving armies at first), bought us wine, introduced a town planning system (based on grids), introduced us to glass, cats, irrigation, sanitation/ waste disposal, public toilets, public baths, a form of order based on Laws, cement, 'shops', the calender, a system of government..........

As you can see quite a lot, however at the time, for most of 'Romanised Britain' ie. the indigenous population life was pretty much unchanged, eeking out an existence from the land. Generally speaking it was only the rich and privileged of the time who benefited from bathing, improved sanitation and other luxuries.

However their legacy remains with us to this day.

Answer 2

When the Romans arrived on our island there was no such place as England neither the English nor the Scots lived on this land ,It was inhabited by the Picts in the North and Brythonic peoples in the South .The Welsh and probably those descended from the South West are descended from the original peoples of this land ,The Scots came over from Hibernia ,and the English from Germania
The Welsh language is the modern version of the original language used by pre Roman people .
As for what benifits did the Romans give us .Well they left their legacy (roads,towns ,monetary systems etc) but once they left in the 5th century ,Britian slipt into a political vacuum and we owe the way we live today to the Norman conquest far more than the Roman occupation .

Answer 3

Actually the Romans changed and pushed to a civilization as we know it all in a rush when conquering Britain.
When conquering a nation it's hard to say what is good and what is not.... You can give your own opinion after centuries but for sure in from the fist century to the fitht romans killed destroyed and rebuild many cultures and villages. But.. most of the cities that we know nowadays were setteld by romans. Here is a short list of cities with the original latin name in brackets:

* Alcester - (Aluana)
* Bath - (Aquae Sulis)
* Caerleon - (Isca Silurum)
* Caerwent - (Venta Silurum)
* Canterbury - (Durovernum)
* Carmarthen - (Moridunum)
* Colchester - (Camulodonum)
* Corbridge - (Coria)
* Chichester - (Noviomagus. Noviomagus means New Market and is also the Roman place name of a town in the Netherlands, now called Nijmegen)
* Chester - (Deva)
* Cirencester - (Corinium)
* Dover - (Portus Dubris)
* Dorchester - (Durnovaria)
* Exeter - (Isca Dumnoniorum)
* Gloucester - (Glevum)
* Leicester - (Ratae Coritanorum)
* London - (Londinium)
* Lincoln - (Lindum Colonia)
* Manchester - (Mamucium)
* Northwich - (Condate)
* St Albans - (Verulamium)
* Towcester - (Lactodorum)
* Whitchurch - (Mediolanvm)
* Winchester - (Venta Belgarum)
* York - (Eboracum)

Even the language the tribes were speaking took a lot from latin and became english with centiries.

You can read more in here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Britain

Answer 4

The Romans were in England before the English were. The indigenous Britons were Kelts, who are not related to the English living there today.

Answer 5

Hello,

In a word, created & built a sophisticated network of roads( such as watling street) spanning the entire country, created hadrians wall dividing england from the picts (scotts), created aquaducts for moving & transporting water, created sewage & sanitation systems, created hot baths for washing in, created a system of fortified & walled towns such as chester, brought the amphitheatre to Britain. And so forth (so the Romans didnt do much for us then??). And so the fact that several thousand years later we can still see the remains of many of these things strikes me as remarkable, if not incredible.

IR

Answer 6

They built roads , commerce , agriculture, concrete, opened up rivers to traffic , introduced education (only to those that they could control i might add), use of horses as a dray animal, introduced weaving fine cloths instead of flax, use of coins as a way of conducting commerce instead of barter , and many more things to numerous to mention , besides that there were many negatives. slavery, destroyed all the local believes and introduced there own , crushed all opposition so that many tribes were wiped out or scatted

Answer 7

They built roads - (great infrastucture for the time and set the path for many of major roads in use today)... they built sewer systems (quite a few still in use), they built big cities like Chester and York ect.

Answer 8

the Watling Street

Answer 9

Roads.

Answer 10

Apart from the aquaduct, sanitation, roads, medicine, education, irrigation, public order and a fresh water system....

ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!

edit* Rich - i think i got them all now ;-)