🇬🇧🏛What was the Roman Influence on Britain? | Americans React 🏺😃
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All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us? - Life of Brian 😂
Christianity?
It's a great film for reaction videos.
@@pumbar !?
@@pumbar Christianity had its issues with Rome..
@@wellaciccio2362 Yup.
The Roman influence actually lasted the longest in Wales. The origin of the Welsh Red Dragon flag is that it was used by Roman cavalry as their military standard, and it is also said it was used by King Arthur as he was a Romano British cavalry general, hence is now the national flag of Wales. All of the old Royal Houses of wales trace their ancestry, and therefore their legitimacy to rule, back to descent from Magnus Maximus, a Roman commander of Britannia who for a brief time was the Western Roman emperor from 383 to 388.
It's an amazing fact on history that when Caesar, embarked on his campaign in Britain. He was met at his chosen landing point by a vast army
which prevented him from landing. He had to travel along the coast, followed all the way by the Britons. Which suggest to me that they had advanced warning of his invasion which further suggest they must have had an intelligence network set up in Gual.
I want reparations from the Italian govt from when the Romans had my Welsh ancestors as slaves. Free the Welsh.
Terry Jones, of Monty Python fame, was also a respected historian. His series "Barbarians: An alternative Roman history" was a fresh take on the Romans and their impact. The basic thesis was that the Romans were the true barbarians, glorying in violence and greed, while destroying or disparaging other more enlightened civilizations.
The Celts were great road builders. Their civilization stretched from the Atlantic to the Russian steppes. They were great traders. They had sophisticated laws involving individual rights, the relations and hierarchies of all clan members and their obligations to each other whereas Roman law concentrated on the power of the paterfamilias. Women in Roman eyes were not human but chattel as opposed to Celtic women who could own property and were entitled to compensation if they were abused or mistreated.
Worth watching.
Keep in mind that thinking like we do in modern times is different back then. I cannot speak for ancient romans, clearly. However, keep also in mind that the word "barbarian" has Greek roots, in a sense that "bar-bar" is what they heard others say who were not speaking Greek - a fantastic civilization that quite frankly was and is still ahead of time for everyone, especially when it comes to words.
Could you do a reaction to _”Modernity was invented in Britain” - David Starkey hits back at Greta Thunberg_ here on CZcams? :)
That was wonderful. I also liked his interview about being cancelled. ( i refuse to be cancelled by those people)
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Yeah, he’s interesting. I think it’s more Nobel Prize winners in _science._
I understand that although the Romans occupied Britain ( mainly England and Wales) for around 400 years they did not leave much of their DNA behind in the subsequent generations. Which would suggest that they didn't integrate with the indigenous population to any extent.
I think that is probably correct .The upper echelons of society were the most integrated into Roman ways,the majority of the population largely kept their indigenous customs,language and religion and just paid their taxes to their new rulers.
Population figures dropped from a few million to under one million when the Romans left. Does this indicate that any indigenous people who DID integrate left with the Roman army?
@@anjiedavie6792 Possibly, or that there were a lot of Romans in Britain.
@@JWNOSNHOJ Yes, indeed. But it just made me wonder
"What have the Romans ever done for us?"
REG: All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
XERXES: Brought peace.
REG: Oh. Peace? Shut up!
Classic 1979 Monty Python's film.. Life of Brian 😁👌🇬🇧
1979
That is a classic.
@@andrewjones575 I have now corrected it , thank you Andrew 🙂
There is part of a Roman Amphitheatre underneath London
I think it’s significant that while the Romans were here Britain was reasonably stable (putting the Boudicca uprising to one side that is) but once Rome lost its grip on Britain the Saxons began their take over and pushed native Britons to the West. Then of course you have waves of Danish assaults on the Saxons until the Saxons unified England and repelled the Danes by and large up until the Norman conquest. I don’t think you can look at England properly unless you take into account the Saxon influence-after all the Saxons invented England.
That revolt destroyed London. If you dig a hole in London eventually you reach the leare of earth with fire damage,
No she lost badly. But she should have won final battle she had 60 thousand vs 10 or 15 thousand Romans ( all other forces were defeated and rome was at war elsewhere and had no troops to spare) this is when nero was emperor after the fire of rome and judea ( isreal was also i revolt) the Roman governor and commander completely destroyed her army and her entire tribe . Interesting battle he used a novel formation ( strategy) and her army was over confident and she brought along the entire civilian population to watch the battle and they all got massacred. A complete rout .
Boudice did pretty well for someone who had absolutely no military training.
@@giauscaesar8047 she did do well . Although as royalty she probably did have training. No experience but training she was Celtic. But there were 40 thousand Roman legionnaires by that last battle she had killed 3 quarters of them . In battle.
@@shanenolan8252 In her final battle perhaps she was just over confident. But the Roman general chose his ground well & made it impossible for the Britains to turn either flank. The Romans were professional soldiers where as the Britons were mainly Iron Age farmers.
@@giauscaesar8047 yes . I believe it was the ground the shield wall formation and especially the wagons behind her army. Like a stampede effect. Who knows they might have been able to regroup and try something else .but paulus didn't underestimate her as the others did and like you said he chose his ground well .
@@shanenolan8252 The Britons were actually charging up hill & as a result lost a lot of momentum. I think for Boudice she may have lost control of the battle as she probably was at the spear point. Instead of being at a central point to direct the battle.
The helmet is actually a Gallic form. The designs of Roman helmets and swords were inspired by Gallic examples.
Yes gallic and the sword was a gladius from spain . Later helmets were inspired by enemy's in the Balkans or dacia at the time . They used a sword that killed even with your helmet on .( they had to develop a new reinforcement of the gallic helmet) .
Of course it would have been very interesting was I able to hear the experts over Lillian's chomping on and rustling of a bag of crisps... hahahahahhaha .... and slurping of Coca Cola heehee
Yep that was the point that I stopped watching, rustle rustle, munch, crunch.
@@RushfanUK hey ho! Poor Lillian, bless her 😂😂😂 bet it doesn’t happen again though 😎
Only a small number of Romans arrived in Britain, and the vast majority returned home. It's therefore bizarre that some people claim that the British have a lot of Roman ancestry.
A lot of the Roman soldiers were Anglo-Saxons, so they were likely the first Anglo-Saxon settlers.
@@hailandplaice I'm not so sure of that.
@@giauscaesar8047 The founders of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Bernicia in northern England, and the eastern Scottish lowlands are thought to have been Roman soldiers, and were possibly the earliest permanent Anglo-Saxon settlers of Britain.
@@hailandplaice Thanks for that I will do some follow up research but thanks for the tip.
bleeding good road builders were them Romans!
What you see in the UK today carries influences from invasions and technologies that have happened over thousands of years.
Many major UK roads, or at least their routes, are in fact Roman in origin, and very few roads have been built with motorised transport in mind, though many have been modified to that end. Cars were not commonly owned until something like the late 1960's - I grew up on a street of 30 houses in the 1960's and we played touch and hide and seek around the 4-5 cars that were owned - today they probably try to park 40 cars on that same street. Almost no-one drove to work, or at least compared to public transport and bicycle - if a company located a factory more than a mile or so from a large potential workforce, they would have to run what were called works buses, to get people in and out of work.
The recent widespread ownership of cars is why houses built before the 1960's seldom have a garage, although many were added afterwards. I can remember when any car was something for use only on high days and holidays and was a considerable status symbol, as was a garage.
I still see the Roman alphabet here
After her family were killed by Romans, Boudicca developed a following against Rome and then a massive army, who sacked a Roman city and then marched upon the Romans... sadly they were defeated in the end as the more advanced Roman over powered them. It must've had some significance as Romans historians wrote of it....
Strange that nobody talks about white slaves. 🤔
thanks for another great video guys.
They rarely mention the "spiked" wine. Which often had hallucinating effects. 🤔
Bloody Roman's! Watch it,we've still got a few crosses left.
Not the most exciting delivery of the info lol reminded me of school. Romans were amazing people.
Watch monty python. What did the Romans do for us.
Lots of Brits don’t learn about Boudicca. It seems to me as though British history started with the Romans and it’s teaching is heavily on what happened after Saxons arrived. This is probably because of the influence of the Saxon Chronicals in determining who were the good guys and who were the baddies. As well as all the Python cliches, the Romans introduced Christianity to Britain long before the Pagan Saxons and Vikings arrived. You only need visit Bath to see how organised society was here once the Romans had annexed Britain, but as they never really annexed the whole island their influence is not evident throughout modern Britain.
The Roman empire was good
Nice to see lilian
Yeah, but what have the Romans done for us… apart from the sanitation, law and order, roads, wine………..blah blah blah?
Lilian went a whole 7 minutes before she had to start grazing 😁 curious to know what foods she's craving. Glad to see her back.😋
Popcorn and fizzy drinks
Like your videos, but munching food midway, whilst viewers are trying to listen isn’t good. Basic manners.