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Show Why Rome Failed in inAncient inAncient Ancient Britain IsShown Is Ishown Shown hown by Digging DiggingBy By EMILY ElIllLY C DAVIS DAVISLondon DAVISLondonOnce DA VIS VISLondon LondonOnce London-Once London Once London -Once Once - - Once again agam the thepast thepast thepast past teaches a lesson in m con conquest conquest conquest quest and its resultsArcheologIcal resultsArcheological results resultsArcheological Archeological mvestIgatIon investigation investigationin mvestIgatIonm m in England is revealing whatwritten what whatwrItten whatwritten wrItten history has never e\- e e1- e1 eplamed e1plained ex explained ' \ . - plained plamed How and why Rome Romefaded Romefailed Romefailed faded failed to Romanize Romamze barbarIan barbarIanBrItam barbarianBritam barbarianBritain BrItam 2 000 years agoRome agoRome ago agoRome Rome fa failed ed says Dr REM REMWhecler B R E MWheeler M MWheeler Whecler Wheeler London university arche archeologist archeologist archeologist ologist because bccause Rome tried tned in Bnt Brit Bnta Brita Brita a n to introduce mtroduce too revolutionary anuphcaval anupheaval an uphcaval upheaval m in a social order Rome brought a pattern of ot city citylIfe citylife citylife lIfe lIfehich which \\hich hich \ was new to the BrItons BrItonsbecause Britonsbecause Britonsbecause because it centered around com corn commerce cornmerce cornmerce merce Excavations show that the theBritons theBritons theBritons Britons had their own cities But Butthe Butthe Butthe the citified citifled Briton Bnton was bucolic He Hedrew Hedrew Hedrew drew on the nearby countryside countrysidefor countrysidefor for food and for the stone Iron Ironcla ironclay ironda cla clay } ) bone and horn that made madeweapons madeweapons madeweapons weapons and household gear Rare Rarely Rarely Rarely ly did these prehistoric Britons 1mport 1m im 1mport import port foreign luxuries Their trade tradewas tradewas tradewas was pcttyCame pettyCame petty pctty pettyCame Came the Romans and they sct sot sctabout sotabout setabout about improving Improvmg these the < e people Na Nabve Native Native I bve tive towns that resisted were werestormed werestormed werestormed stormed and d smantled senantled as has hasbeen hasbeen hasbeen been recently shown by digging dIggmg at atMalden atMaiden atMaiden Malden Maiden Castle CasUe Disarmed townsfolk towns townsfolk townsfolk folk remained remamed to rebu Id ld the r rhouses rhouses rbouses houses and become Roman sub subJects subjects sublects Jects lects 1\ 1 \ 1a ] I , o a Middle ClassThe ClassThe Class ClassThe The Romans Introduced foreIgn foreIgncraftsmen foreigncraftsmen foreigncraftsmen craftsmen to teach the natives to tobuild tobuild tosuild build in m the Roman way and tor for torelgn foreign toreign elgn eign capital to de\ de develop deelop deselop \ elop resources of ofthe ofthe ofthe the countryBy countryBy country countryBy By the middle of ot the second cen century century cenury tury : says Doctor Wheeler Londonand London Londonand Londonand and Verulamium Verulamlum shone brightly bnghtly on onthe onthe onthe the provincial landscape Brltam Britain Brltamhad Britainhad Britainhad had acquired central heatmg heating dust dustproot dustproof dustproof proot proof floors bath su tes tea tesBut teaBut tesBut But But , , , little lttle ! more than a century centurylater centurylater centurylater later the bubble had burst An Another Another Another other century and Romano BritIsh BritIshcItIes Britishcities Britishcities cItIes degenerated into concentrat concentratcd concentrated concentrated cd ed slums No prosperous mIddle mIddleclass middleclass middleclass class had developed and Without Withoutth withoutth th s type the Roman city plan wasbound was wasbound wasbound bound to ta failDoctor fail failDoctor Doctor Wheeler sums it up Rome Romeeffected Romeeffected Romeeffected effected a political poltIcal ! and social revo revolutIon revolution revolution lutIon m in Britain Brltam but not the eco economJC economic ecosomic nomJC nomic re\olution re olution reolutlOn resolution re\ re \ olutlOn to fit it RomanoBritish Romano RomanoBritIsh RomanoBritish BritIsh country l life e succeeded The ThecItIes Thecities Thecities cItIes awaited the Middle ages for fora fora fora a comeback _ |