That England once had Native people and was ruled by Rome !! Whooo =[
2007-12-20 09:28:17 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Mind you, it was a long time ago - Julius Caesar invaded Britain in BC 52 - give or take a few years.
Then they got fed up trying to control us towards the end because we were such an unruly lot and things were not going great guns at home (Rome), reinforcements took such a long time to come from Gaul, that they packed up and went home.
They left behind quite a lot of buildings and artifacts all over the country which are great tourist attractions - especially Hadrian's Wall that stretches across northern England dividing England and Scotland - which was built to keep the Picts (Scots) in and the Britons apart in case both countries decided to join together.
Another use for Hadrian's Wall was that it it was used as a tax collection point by the Romans for controlled sheep/cattle trading.
A nice little earner that must have been!!.
PS Hadrian was an Emperor.
2007-12-20 10:07:02 · answer #1 · answered by quette2@btopenworld.com 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Britons, Welsch, and the Cornish peoples were Native to England. This does not count the peoples Native to what is now called Scotland. There you had the Picts, who the Romans never conquered, the Celts, and the Scots in the highlands. The Scots were originally from Ireland by the way and not Scotland.
2007-12-21 01:29:16 · answer #2 · answered by Top Over 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, Merry One, the Britons, a Celtic people, populated much of Old England before the Roman invasion of 43 AD. One of their most formidable leaders was a woman warrior named Boudicca. In AD 60-61 she lead a revolt against the Romans that resulted in the destruction of much of the Roman IX Legion and the burning of London.
2007-12-20 21:05:35 · answer #3 · answered by James@hbpl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, Britain was once a Roman colony. While celebrating their ancestors' resistance to Roman tyranny (There's an enormous and very inaccurate statue of Queen Boudicca across the street from the Houses of Parliament.), they went on to colonize large parts of the world.
2007-12-21 11:42:50 · answer #4 · answered by sjpatejak 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
who ever said the britons ran the romans out was wrong. The Romans pulled out of Britain because of troubles at home (you know with the whole fall of the empire). If anyone ran the romans out of britain it was the Gauls and Vickings.
2007-12-21 00:44:13 · answer #5 · answered by Theresa M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that's right.
And after that the English lived in fear of the Vikings for quite a while.
2007-12-20 17:39:35 · answer #6 · answered by ivorytower 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
who were englands natives?? is that the ?? in that case.. the Celts..
2007-12-20 17:39:56 · answer #7 · answered by sebastianlovesjlk 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What's the question?
2007-12-20 17:38:37 · answer #8 · answered by Frosty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
huh?
2007-12-20 17:34:08 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋