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Title: A short history of England and the British Empire
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Larson, Laurence Marcellus, 1868-1938
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Publisher: New York : Henry Holt and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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their independence. But in conquest. 43 a.d., an invasion was begun for the purpose of subduing the island. Northward and westward the Roman eagles were carried, northward to the Humber and westward to the sacred isle of Mona (Anglesea). The conquest covered a period of nearly forty years and was carried to practical completion by the Roman general Agricola, Agncola. l J ... the father-in-law of the historian Tacitus. Agncola carried the frontier to the edge of the Highlands ; but Rome soon withdrew from these northern territories and drew the frontier along a line connecting Sol way Firth with the river Tyne.9. Roman Civilization in Britain. To make it easier to hold the country the Romans built a network of roads, four principal highways running northward and many shorter transverse lines. At the intersections camps were located and important cities grew up, inhabited largely by Roman merchants and discharged soldiers. Half 1 Cheyney, No. 7; Gardiner, n-12. ROMAN CIVILIZATION IN BRITAIN
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8 THE BEGINNINGS OF ENGLAND a century after Agricola's time, the Emperor Hadrian built, Hadrians between the Solway and the Tyne, a strong wall, wall fragments of which can still be seen after the pas- sage of eighteen centuries. The south side of the wall was lined with Roman camps and guarded by a force of about 10,000 men gathered from every quarter of the Roman world. The Romans also did much to improve the civilization and to utilize the resources of the island. Mines of tin, lead, and Progress in iron were opened and worked. Splendid houses civilization. were built of which an occasional ruin is still to be seen.1 Cities were founded; trade was developed; and agriculture was improved. In time the Christian religion came to the island along with numerous forms of pagan faith. The native Celt no doubt came to some extent under the spell of Roman civilization; but Britain never became thoroughly Romanized, except in the neighborhood of the Roman towns;in the more remote rural districts the rud

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