did the building of Hadrian's wall create the nation of Scotland??

Question

am i right in assumeing that before the roman invasion of britain it was just small kingdom's spread the length and breadth of britain

Answer 1

No.

The Scottish nation as we understand it today was created in the early medieval period, at about the time the English nation was created, when they both became unified kingdoms.

Answer 2

Hadrian's Wall was an attempt by the Emperor Hadrian to stop the raids and rampant smuggling from Pictish Lands into Roman Britain,sort of like what congress want to do at the southern border today. The Pict's were one of many tribes that made up the inhabitants of the British Isles at that time. The Romans conquered Britain only after they had been able to focus on it during the reign of Claudius. They stopped at the Pictish lands because that was where the legions were over stretched.

Britain didn't come into being until the Middle Ages when the Norse and the Angles invaded and united the two ethnic groups the Angles unites the Brits into the Angles and the Saxons hence the name England or Angleland. The Norse united the northern tribes into what is today Scotland.

Answer 3

Hadrian's wall just divided the six or eight tribal regions in the south, which Rome had conquered, from the four or five in the North which it decided it couldn't, mostly because of the geography. The wall is up to about forty miles south of the current border anyway.

After the Romans left, Britain was a patchwork of small kingdoms until the England/Scotland split settled down around 800 AD. The split was near the line of the Wall, but that wasn't because of the Wall - it was because of the same geographical differences that had caused the Wall to be built roughly there.

Answer 4

The building of Hadrian's Wall marked the northern extent of the highly centralised Roman Empire; it reflects a conscious decision to limit further colonisation so far from Rome itself.It also reflects the determination of the indigenous Celtic population to resist Roman interference and aggression.

Britain was ruled by smaller kingdoms of 1st and 2nd wave Celtic leaders. When Rome withdrew from Britain, the celts, angles, saxons and jutes reverted to these smaller, local centres of administration and defence. By the time King Alfred (849-899) became the Bretwalda, there were 7 main kingdoms, of which Wessex, under his leadership, became the most successful in keeping at bay the frequent invasions ('Viking') from northern Europe.

Answer 5

No. It just separated the existing Scotland from England. It was built to stop the marauding Celts from invading Northern England. If you search the internet for "Hadrians Wall" you will find out all you want to know about it - and more.

Answer 6

NO there has all ways been a Scotland, Britain was made up of small kingdoms when the Romans came the wall was built to stop the Scot's from invading roman england

Answer 7

Scotland was created as a nation when the Scots (who were Irish invaders) conquered the Picts. This was partly done by taking their lands and killing them and was finally achieved when a single man Kenneth MacAlpen became heir to the Scottish and Pictish throne and became king of both peoples.

Answer 8

A wall never symbolizes the birth of a nation; it usually stands for segregation...'Divide et impera'...a policy on which the Romans built the wall.

Answer 9

No, the wall just discouraged the Picts. The Scots hadn't even arrived at that time, and when they did it was initially just in the southwest corner. (The Scoti were from Ireland.)