@TalonMercenary The Romans were corrupt but thinking the Celts were peace loving hippies is a common mistake. Celtic society had all the same corrupt elements roman society had, such as kind of violence where one tribe would attack anothers village, killing all the men and taking the women and children as slaves. As an Irish person who was educated in Trinity College in Dublin, we also have recent evidence of brutal ritual human sacrifice.(google oldcrogan man and clonycavan man)
The first Anglo-Saxons were known to have pushed all Romanized Celts away to North and West and were trading with Germans in their homeland whilst, the Celts were again decimated by the plague delivered from Byzantine Empire which still was their trading partner. That's why the Irish is such few in our time.
Theres plenty of us Irish thank you. Irish americans practically run the US millitary, Reagen and Kennedy were Irish. There are more Irish people all over the world than there have ever been.
@SummernlightningUSA women but im not irish irish man well il screw u till u are the only people to take over half the world with breeding the natives out i.e. an empire of love its good to b gaelic lol
"Ill give you the view of the ordinary ppl." - yea maybe from the 17. hds. onwards when they could write - but for the time before - you just pull silly dialoges or worse intervews out of your ass - and let them say by cheap actors like it was a mockumentary
@tsangpogorge actually only a few people were treated like that. Many slaves could earn their own living outside the household and they could buy their freedom. Now some stations were obviously better than others. But many masters would take their slaves under their wings and teach them, educate them. I think Caesars slave is the best known one. A man who earned his freedom from slavery. Also in later Roman periods you couldn't sell yourself into slavery for a period to pay for a debt.
"We brought them civilization" say the Romans. But I'm seeing Boudica being beaten and her daughters raped, Druids, the Shamanic Holy Men of Britain being massacred and their sacred groves being burned. Our way of life being destroyed This is the price we paid for this "civilization". Was it worth it?
Romans stole everything from Celts of Continental Europe and the Ancient Greeks, they gave no one anything.
The Roman sword for example, with which the empire was created and founded, was Celtic, the Gladius, a Sword design stolen from the Celts of Spain. (Hispania).
The Celts where 1000 years already into the Iron Age before Rome was even a Republic never mind an Empire, and also Yes, despite Latin Roman Propaganda, Had Roads everywhere and a Written languages.
@phr34kyy As much as I am a huge fan of the "Carry On" films, the way the Celtic Britons were portrayed in "Carry On Cleo" is a good example of the myth that Europe was a degenerate backward hell-hole before Rome came to power. A good answer is to look at Scotland which was never conquered by the Romans. The tribes of Caledonia fought hard to keep the Romans out. Luckily they triumphed where Boudica lost.... CTD
Nonsense, Romans went into Scotland found nothing to their liking and no one worth taxing, built a wall to mark the most northern boundary, no evidence of any trouble around Hadrian's wall at all.
@hetrodoxly Rubbish. That wall is 70 miles long, 20 feet high (or was when it was in use) and is dotted with military facilities. It must have cost a fortune and much effort to build. If there was no trouble there and it was just intended to mark the border then surely a couple of signposts would have done the trick! There are several gates in the wall indicating that there was quiet periods when Britannia and the independent tribes to the north traded peacefully though.... ctd
The wall was to mark the northern boundary of the Roman Empire this is the perceived reason by historians for it's construction if you think a sign post would have done the job you know nothing of Rome or Romans, there's no evidence of any conflict and if there was Roman historians would have documented it, we have no names of any leaders north of the boarder because they were of no consequence.
@hetrodoxly I disagree. If you think a singpost or similar marker would NOT have done the job then YOU know nothing of Rome and Romans. The Romans even built a second wall when, the Antonine Wall, during the short time they occupied southern Scotland. Also because something is not documented in history, does that mean it never happened? Of course not? And indeed vice versa. We've seen this in more recent history; God knows how inaccurate the history of 2000 years ago is.
We can only debate what is known? lol, what we do know is Romans documented all their battles, I'm not going to comment on your sign post theory it's just silly, they built more that two walls.
@hetrodoxly We can speculate based on evidence though, and what we know about human nature. We can also understand that history and archaeology is often distorted for political purposes.
@hetrodoxly It is a bit in that the Britons speak modern Gaelic. That's like making the Romans speak in Italian! The Britons look like punk-rockers too!
@hetrodoxly CTD... It's interesting to compare Hadrian's Wall with Offa's Dyke, an Earth berm between England and Wales dug 700 years later. That probably was just a marker, seeing as it's just a mound of earth and it runs along the English side of the Wye Gorge, when the gorge alone would have been enough to stop any invader.
@phr34kyy CTD... If we accept the mainstream Adam Hart-Davies-jumping-around-the-place view of history then it's baffling why the Caledonians would do that. You'd think they'd lay out a red carpet: "Come on in, guys! Please conquer us! Destroy our culture, take possession of our lands and commit genocide on us! We don't care because we want those nice, straight roads and central heating!"
@phr34kyy It's actually writers of historical fiction, not historians, who are doing the best work in revising the official line. the best of these I've come across is Manda Scott.
Ok, ok wait - I love history, especially stuff surrounding the ancient and mysterious peoples like Celts, Huns, Norsemen, Teutons etc. and yes Rome assimilated the attributes of those whom they conquered into their own Empire but you wrote "Romans...gave no one anything" - are you joking?!??
@phr34kyy Celts were a very long lasting empire which terrorized rome in it's early days. They seiged and sacked Rome many times and Celtic warriors served Hannibal. They were known as terrorists back then, in the sense they were expert soldiers, blowing great bronze horns. No wonder Cauis Julius Ceasar was seen as a hero after butchering the gualish princes.
Reg: All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
Britons were second class citizens in there own country, Its the same today. they were bleeding us dry, We had nothing left, they took everything from us??
@deathpunish2 Yeah I know about that but I beleive Britain is still worse as every F***** country in the world has tried to invade it at least once, most failed but only the Romans Germans and "Normans" have ever succedded, You have to admit even if not the most violent its the most "savage" if you know what I mean. But the Chinese bamboo and water torture freak me out to....
the Romans were avaricious pigs! using the cry of, "civilize the barbarians!", as a cover for the most savage abuses against peoples slowly assimilating into the mediterrenian technological sphere! Gauls were living in Roman type buildings and walled towns! using money! doing trade with Romans! then Julius Caesar attacks to satisfy his own base and brutal greed!
Was the disclaimer at the beginning really necessary? Was anyone going to assume the actors were in fact 1950 year old people discussing their role in the Bouddician Rebellion?
@gaiusscholasticus Who is the real loser here? The person making ludicrous jokes about documentary disclaimers or the thoughtful person trying to enlighten them? :)
Suetonius wasn't the tyrant that was ruthless...the Emperor ordered the annexation of the Icenii, taxed the Britons, and ordered most of the horrbile thing. Suetonius was just a military governor following orders like any other soldier.
It hardly qualifies as a rebellion when the Romans were an invading force who had butchered or enslaved over two million Gauls to steal their gold mines.
You omitted the part where the Romans were clad from head-to-toe in expensive metal armor, wielding forged iron short swords, lobbing 3-foot long forged and balanced iron javelins and trained from the time they were little boys to fight as a highly organized fighting unit.
Most of the Celts were just simple rural people who wanted to be free. They weren't professional soldiers. So with that in mind, it is incredible that Boudica did as well as she did... given the odds.
you and 007 aren´t right at all - they were just 10000 roman soldiers, but they allways fought with mercenarys at their side. a fact that roman historians "forgot" to increase the glory of the legions.
roman historians were not always close to the truth. i wrote about them, not about nowadays historians. It is modern historybooks.
that romans had always mercenarys is a fact.
the first saxons and other germanic tribes in britain were mercenarys. and a lot of the celtic population served in the roman army too. they gave their blades for money, bacause its better than to live on a little farm.
for every evil there was a good-ask the Australians, i think most of them are quite happy with what the British empire gave tham-a safe, warm, bountiful home
You ask me the Romans had it coming to them sooner or later; I mean, you know someone fighting back against them, for "personal reasons". Its an old OLD law; push people, people push back. You'ld think people would learn that by now!?
Romans also came up with the lovely idea of smeering a cows uterus onto a female prisoner, releasing her into an amphitheatre, then loosing a pent-up and aggressive bull into the ring along with her........ civilised!!
this kind of alegations havent a single comprovation or corroboration for hisrorians, just myth people keeping repeat, and compared to the rest of the world ROMA was the light, the civilization, so that after the fall of rome the world took 1000 year to get in his feet again
Well not the world...just the western european territories because the eastern roman empire was still around, also knowledge was maintained by the east and later reintroduced to western europe throught the islamic conquests.
@tlatoani3 a person of some intelligence here, nice to see, eastern roman empire later renamed byzentine empire continued until the early rennaisance times which most ppl are ignorant of, this means the roman empire in its entireity did not fall untill less 11-1200sAD not 410-456AD as assumed by most
That's a nonsensical argument. If it was true that only countries conquered by the Romans ever beame civilised, why are Norway, Sweden, Russia, Poland etc etc all modern states? Civilisation happens as a process regardless of the Romans
Who told you? The history of Europe, like everywhere else, has always been written in blood. When Rome fell, the Dark Ages came. Big improvement, huh?
Man, I'm not even of Celtic descent by any stretch of the imagination as far as I know. But I still find Boudicca to be a source of inspiration, much more so than many of the "idols" of today. She's one person I would most like to have a conversation with. Ah for the power to bring back the dead.
I find it amusing now, that the Romans saw the Britons as uncivilized. Their culture was perhaps as complex as that of the Romans.
To the Romans, the inferior culture was always that of the conquered. I very much doubt that they truly appraised the complexity of religious customs, philosophical thought, etc. when making such sweeping assessments.
Does civilisation involve killing your own family members, sleeping with your mother, raping women a la several of the Roman emperors (Nero, Caligula etc)? Or burning christians alive? Or feeding them to animals? Or enslaving whole peoples? Yep, that's civilsation isn't it and why we don't do those things now. The Romans were motivated by greed and the need to provide slaves, not by any altrustic moral desire to help civilise others!
It's sad that most young women today look up to degenerate pop stars and not great aryans like her. That is why I am support neo-paganism. Women in ancient pre-Christian Europe, especially among the Nordic, Germanic, Celtic, and Slavic peoples, had enormous social, political, and spiritual influence and power in their communities. WPWW
whoops. I was showing my friend, who is a girl, the audio preview thing where the computer voice says what you typed. She typed that last comment and pressed post, still pretty funny but if anyone on my friends list sees it it was NOT me.
I dont see how they just condemn the slaughter of the druids. I'm sure there were political reasons for it, seeing that according to this the Druids united the British tribes...that is political, and any conquering nation wants to eliminate political opposition....that was the way, to condemn and make the romans out to be killers is wrong, that was life, and humans are humans. I say look at politics
Pity we don't have more to go by. I do enjoy the vid though
matkent123: he means the United Common Cause against the fascism and violent tyranny of the previous German and Japanese regimes excessive and abusive behaviour!!
The Druids were the bane of many of English kings well after the Romans abandoned England. Most Romans, i.e., the senate and publicans considered the Britons as "Blue Skinned Oyster Crackers."
I find that a bit hard to believe. We're sure that many Celtic-Briton kingdoms reverted to Celtic systems of government Post Rome, but did they revert to paganism? Or did it ever really go away?
Yes, attacking and killing people for your own greed. Oh yes, very civilized, indeed. Hypocrites. Boudicca, you make me proud to be a woman.
InnannasRainbow 2 weeks ago
I didn't realize they spoke english is 60 AD, or had video cameras..
LazyJoe335 1 month ago
Which total war game did they use for this?
BuckFastZombie 1 month ago
Romans were the TRUE barbarians, but as they say "history is written by the victor" so we have their deformed view of things
TalonMercenary 3 months ago
@TalonMercenary rome never beat us tho cum to thnik about no1 has um the boxxer reblion messed us up abit tho saor gaelic domhan free gaelic world
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@TalonMercenary The Romans were corrupt but thinking the Celts were peace loving hippies is a common mistake. Celtic society had all the same corrupt elements roman society had, such as kind of violence where one tribe would attack anothers village, killing all the men and taking the women and children as slaves. As an Irish person who was educated in Trinity College in Dublin, we also have recent evidence of brutal ritual human sacrifice.(google oldcrogan man and clonycavan man)
SummernlightningUSA 1 month ago
7:48 a Nod soldier died.
ASSHOLELA 5 months ago
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ASSHOLELA 5 months ago
that folding board reminds me of Jumanji....
god only knows what would come out of that thing next :P
gstv87 5 months ago
The first Anglo-Saxons were known to have pushed all Romanized Celts away to North and West and were trading with Germans in their homeland whilst, the Celts were again decimated by the plague delivered from Byzantine Empire which still was their trading partner. That's why the Irish is such few in our time.
NaoEva 6 months ago
@NaoEva
Theres plenty of us Irish thank you. Irish americans practically run the US millitary, Reagen and Kennedy were Irish. There are more Irish people all over the world than there have ever been.
SummernlightningUSA 5 months ago
@SummernlightningUSA women but im not irish irish man well il screw u till u are the only people to take over half the world with breeding the natives out i.e. an empire of love its good to b gaelic lol
kingpharaohtsar 1 month ago
@kingpharaohtsar im irish, and I have worked as a bartender. after reading what you just typed NO MORE FECKIN WHISKY FOR YOU LAD
SummernlightningUSA 1 month ago
@SummernlightningUSA lol aye im am pretty gone rigth now erieann gu bragh
kingpharaohtsar 1 month ago
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NaoEva 6 months ago
I don't care for the fake interviews.
Ebuverthebicepcurler 6 months ago
"Ill give you the view of the ordinary ppl." - yea maybe from the 17. hds. onwards when they could write - but for the time before - you just pull silly dialoges or worse intervews out of your ass - and let them say by cheap actors like it was a mockumentary
wildhias 7 months ago
romans enslaved people and the slaves were beaten, raped and left to starve by their masters they were an empire of evil
tsangpogorge 9 months ago
@tsangpogorge actually only a few people were treated like that. Many slaves could earn their own living outside the household and they could buy their freedom. Now some stations were obviously better than others. But many masters would take their slaves under their wings and teach them, educate them. I think Caesars slave is the best known one. A man who earned his freedom from slavery. Also in later Roman periods you couldn't sell yourself into slavery for a period to pay for a debt.
GummiBands 6 months ago
"We brought them civilization" say the Romans. But I'm seeing Boudica being beaten and her daughters raped, Druids, the Shamanic Holy Men of Britain being massacred and their sacred groves being burned. Our way of life being destroyed This is the price we paid for this "civilization". Was it worth it?
benthejrporter 1 year ago 3
@benthejrporter
Indeed.
Romans stole everything from Celts of Continental Europe and the Ancient Greeks, they gave no one anything.
The Roman sword for example, with which the empire was created and founded, was Celtic, the Gladius, a Sword design stolen from the Celts of Spain. (Hispania).
The Celts where 1000 years already into the Iron Age before Rome was even a Republic never mind an Empire, and also Yes, despite Latin Roman Propaganda, Had Roads everywhere and a Written languages.
phr34kyy 1 year ago 7
@phr34kyy As much as I am a huge fan of the "Carry On" films, the way the Celtic Britons were portrayed in "Carry On Cleo" is a good example of the myth that Europe was a degenerate backward hell-hole before Rome came to power. A good answer is to look at Scotland which was never conquered by the Romans. The tribes of Caledonia fought hard to keep the Romans out. Luckily they triumphed where Boudica lost.... CTD
benthejrporter 1 year ago
@benthejrporter
Nonsense, Romans went into Scotland found nothing to their liking and no one worth taxing, built a wall to mark the most northern boundary, no evidence of any trouble around Hadrian's wall at all.
hetrodoxly 11 months ago
@hetrodoxly Rubbish. That wall is 70 miles long, 20 feet high (or was when it was in use) and is dotted with military facilities. It must have cost a fortune and much effort to build. If there was no trouble there and it was just intended to mark the border then surely a couple of signposts would have done the trick! There are several gates in the wall indicating that there was quiet periods when Britannia and the independent tribes to the north traded peacefully though.... ctd
benthejrporter 11 months ago
@benthejrporter
The wall was to mark the northern boundary of the Roman Empire this is the perceived reason by historians for it's construction if you think a sign post would have done the job you know nothing of Rome or Romans, there's no evidence of any conflict and if there was Roman historians would have documented it, we have no names of any leaders north of the boarder because they were of no consequence.
hetrodoxly 11 months ago
@hetrodoxly I disagree. If you think a singpost or similar marker would NOT have done the job then YOU know nothing of Rome and Romans. The Romans even built a second wall when, the Antonine Wall, during the short time they occupied southern Scotland. Also because something is not documented in history, does that mean it never happened? Of course not? And indeed vice versa. We've seen this in more recent history; God knows how inaccurate the history of 2000 years ago is.
benthejrporter 11 months ago
@benthejrporter
We can only debate what is known? lol, what we do know is Romans documented all their battles, I'm not going to comment on your sign post theory it's just silly, they built more that two walls.
hetrodoxly 11 months ago
@hetrodoxly We can speculate based on evidence though, and what we know about human nature. We can also understand that history and archaeology is often distorted for political purposes.
benthejrporter 10 months ago
@hetrodoxly There's actually a film in the cinema at the moment, "The Eagle", based on the Rosemary Sutcliffe novel, set around Hadrian's Wall.
benthejrporter 11 months ago
@benthejrporter
Yes and it's just fantasy.
hetrodoxly 11 months ago
@hetrodoxly It is a bit in that the Britons speak modern Gaelic. That's like making the Romans speak in Italian! The Britons look like punk-rockers too!
benthejrporter 10 months ago
@hetrodoxly CTD... It's interesting to compare Hadrian's Wall with Offa's Dyke, an Earth berm between England and Wales dug 700 years later. That probably was just a marker, seeing as it's just a mound of earth and it runs along the English side of the Wye Gorge, when the gorge alone would have been enough to stop any invader.
benthejrporter 11 months ago
@phr34kyy CTD... If we accept the mainstream Adam Hart-Davies-jumping-around-the-place view of history then it's baffling why the Caledonians would do that. You'd think they'd lay out a red carpet: "Come on in, guys! Please conquer us! Destroy our culture, take possession of our lands and commit genocide on us! We don't care because we want those nice, straight roads and central heating!"
benthejrporter 1 year ago
@phr34kyy It's actually writers of historical fiction, not historians, who are doing the best work in revising the official line. the best of these I've come across is Manda Scott.
benthejrporter 1 year ago
@phr34kyy
Ok, ok wait - I love history, especially stuff surrounding the ancient and mysterious peoples like Celts, Huns, Norsemen, Teutons etc. and yes Rome assimilated the attributes of those whom they conquered into their own Empire but you wrote "Romans...gave no one anything" - are you joking?!??
Mackem1 11 months ago
@phr34kyy Celts were a very long lasting empire which terrorized rome in it's early days. They seiged and sacked Rome many times and Celtic warriors served Hannibal. They were known as terrorists back then, in the sense they were expert soldiers, blowing great bronze horns. No wonder Cauis Julius Ceasar was seen as a hero after butchering the gualish princes.
sqccccccccc 2 months ago
Clever well done semi documentary of the times.
cosmicdingo 1 year ago
Reg: All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
Attendee: Brought peace?
Reg: Oh, peace - shut up!
chiby1000 1 year ago
@chiby1000 Romani Eunt Domus! :-)
benthejrporter 1 year ago
well if i was a roman soldier id enjoy killing godless savages with funny accents....
just like a British knight killing faggy Frenchmen....
chiby1000 1 year ago
@chiby1000 Godless?
taff1976 1 year ago
Catholic Church = Christian Taliban.
HoundofOdin 1 year ago 11
@HoundofOdin mossad= jewish talilban
kingpharaohtsar 1 month ago
@kingpharaohtsar
You're wrong:
mossad=service
talib[an]=student[s]
schlagerhansi 1 week ago
@ShowYourWorking That's an insult to the Druids.
sourcemaster 1 year ago
The Roman war machine was frightened by a gang of ancient hippies wrapped in bedsheets - yeah, right
vulpecula999 1 year ago 2
Roman Legions vs. the Highland Charge = Roman win? the Romans were pretty badass >.> ancient version of the Highland Charge, anyway....
alexp9999 1 year ago
What's her name ... she also played in Doctor who !
second question and last ... ;-)
gekkegerrit11 1 year ago
What;'s the name of this commentary? It reminds me of Kees Beentjes ... :P
gekkegerrit11 1 year ago
That documentary style (interviewing people and stuff) is fucking hilarious. Gotta love the bbc.
Herbstgespenst 1 year ago
Britons were second class citizens in there own country, Its the same today. they were bleeding us dry, We had nothing left, they took everything from us??
ulmovarda 1 year ago
@ulmovarda
The Romans actually looked after the Britons who didnt resist, they built us Villas and gave us farmland
triangleshapedcheese 1 year ago
haha britons were second class citizens in there own country, Its the same today.
ulmovarda 1 year ago
Britain is a beautiful land yet has the most violent history of them all
TheDancingNoob 1 year ago
@TheDancingNoob Beautiful yes, but most violent know.... Try China.....
deathpunish2 1 year ago
@deathpunish2 Yeah I know about that but I beleive Britain is still worse as every F***** country in the world has tried to invade it at least once, most failed but only the Romans Germans and "Normans" have ever succedded, You have to admit even if not the most violent its the most "savage" if you know what I mean. But the Chinese bamboo and water torture freak me out to....
TheDancingNoob 1 year ago
the Romans were avaricious pigs! using the cry of, "civilize the barbarians!", as a cover for the most savage abuses against peoples slowly assimilating into the mediterrenian technological sphere! Gauls were living in Roman type buildings and walled towns! using money! doing trade with Romans! then Julius Caesar attacks to satisfy his own base and brutal greed!
acerb45666555 1 year ago
@acerb45666555 nevertheless the roman empire lasted for about 600 years. They must have been doing something right.
tonylast47 1 year ago
I <3 Roman oppression of the lesser people. SPQR 4 Life!
Gneisenau 1 year ago
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1Chelseachillin1 1 year ago
Was the disclaimer at the beginning really necessary? Was anyone going to assume the actors were in fact 1950 year old people discussing their role in the Bouddician Rebellion?
lemonsquire 1 year ago
@lemonsquire note the emphasis on improvisation, their speech is not from documentary evidence
gaiusscholasticus 1 year ago
@gaiusscholasticus haha Actually I meant my comment to be a joke, but thank you anyways. You make a good point.
lemonsquire 1 year ago
@lemonsquire
I know, but the serious loser inside me is always struggling to get out.
gaiusscholasticus 1 year ago
@gaiusscholasticus Who is the real loser here? The person making ludicrous jokes about documentary disclaimers or the thoughtful person trying to enlighten them? :)
lemonsquire 1 year ago
Britain might be peaceful today... LOL
ezelje 1 year ago
I fucking hate these tossers. They may as well just shout "Rule Britannia" at the beginning and end of the programme.
DuffmanIRL 1 year ago
Brighton was originally a Druid settlement, and they worshipped Virgins and Oak trees. Indeed, many Oak trees may be seen today in Brighton.
gamesbok 1 year ago
Hope the Celts will rise again against the foreigners of our age!
merlinreborn 1 year ago
@merlinreborn the romans?
elchippe 1 year ago
name of the series?
KiljanArslan 1 year ago
This is at stupid series . telling it like it was present time ..
joshuahimself 1 year ago
Suetonius wasn't the tyrant that was ruthless...the Emperor ordered the annexation of the Icenii, taxed the Britons, and ordered most of the horrbile thing. Suetonius was just a military governor following orders like any other soldier.
ojump0ffacliff89 1 year ago
god I really hate the talking heads on these programmes.
ryko26 1 year ago
"200,000" lol
ryko26 1 year ago
It hardly qualifies as a rebellion when the Romans were an invading force who had butchered or enslaved over two million Gauls to steal their gold mines.
Valmarith 2 years ago
england? what english what?
Bighairyfart 2 years ago
007,
You omitted the part where the Romans were clad from head-to-toe in expensive metal armor, wielding forged iron short swords, lobbing 3-foot long forged and balanced iron javelins and trained from the time they were little boys to fight as a highly organized fighting unit.
Most of the Celts were just simple rural people who wanted to be free. They weren't professional soldiers. So with that in mind, it is incredible that Boudica did as well as she did... given the odds.
Tessmage 2 years ago
you and 007 aren´t right at all - they were just 10000 roman soldiers, but they allways fought with mercenarys at their side. a fact that roman historians "forgot" to increase the glory of the legions.
hiltibrandt 2 years ago
@hiltibrandt
If it isn't in the history books, then why are you so sure about that..?
;)
Tessmage 2 years ago
roman historians were not always close to the truth. i wrote about them, not about nowadays historians. It is modern historybooks.
that romans had always mercenarys is a fact.
the first saxons and other germanic tribes in britain were mercenarys. and a lot of the celtic population served in the roman army too. they gave their blades for money, bacause its better than to live on a little farm.
hiltibrandt 2 years ago
At 1:58, it looked liked a smiley face
Nepotuneman 2 years ago 2
The English were no saints when they ruled their empire too. Ask the Irish. As for the Watling Street, it had a happy ending - if you're Italian.
Gazzara5 2 years ago
for every evil there was a good-ask the Australians, i think most of them are quite happy with what the British empire gave tham-a safe, warm, bountiful home
bulked 2 years ago
You ask me the Romans had it coming to them sooner or later; I mean, you know someone fighting back against them, for "personal reasons". Its an old OLD law; push people, people push back. You'ld think people would learn that by now!?
8lsatyq 2 years ago 26
ALL empires have it coming to them!
johnthekeane 2 years ago
well Boudicca was happy with Rome until dick raped her daughter
Alucardthedeadone 2 years ago
also once their client king was dead, they effectively took the kingdom as their inheritance
Bighairyfart 2 years ago
Rome along with Ancient greece,are the cradle of the Modern Western World,along with all the goods and bads that come with it
MarkSeptim 2 years ago
romans had an powerful army but till the barbarian invasion
simco102 2 years ago
You gotta LOVE the Romans!
AssyrianGuy34 2 years ago 3
Boudica is the best ginger EVER!!!
go Boudica
paranormal666wiccan 2 years ago 4
Romans also came up with the lovely idea of smeering a cows uterus onto a female prisoner, releasing her into an amphitheatre, then loosing a pent-up and aggressive bull into the ring along with her........ civilised!!
cgoodger1 2 years ago
rome only brought some good stuff, but the were nothing more than greedy mother fuckers....
elguerreromuisca 2 years ago
this kind of alegations havent a single comprovation or corroboration for hisrorians, just myth people keeping repeat, and compared to the rest of the world ROMA was the light, the civilization, so that after the fall of rome the world took 1000 year to get in his feet again
junmengo 2 years ago 2
Well not the world...just the western european territories because the eastern roman empire was still around, also knowledge was maintained by the east and later reintroduced to western europe throught the islamic conquests.
tlatoani3 2 years ago
@tlatoani3 a person of some intelligence here, nice to see, eastern roman empire later renamed byzentine empire continued until the early rennaisance times which most ppl are ignorant of, this means the roman empire in its entireity did not fall untill less 11-1200sAD not 410-456AD as assumed by most
LordoftheHornets 2 years ago
Ungrateful Brits. If it wasn't for the Romans the Brits would still be uncivilised savages wearing loin cloth and living in stick huts.
mooncoonh8tr 3 years ago
so what about in other counties where the romans didnt colonize? Why are they still not going around with spears and sheilds?
matkent123 3 years ago 2
because we were colonised in turn by the brits...
it's all a wonderful cycle of brutality :D
lyndabynda 3 years ago
yes the romans did improve britain greatly but that doesn't excuse invasion and enslavement, nothing does
pumpkinhd18 2 years ago
That's a nonsensical argument. If it was true that only countries conquered by the Romans ever beame civilised, why are Norway, Sweden, Russia, Poland etc etc all modern states? Civilisation happens as a process regardless of the Romans
219970 2 years ago
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fuck romans, life was peaceful and simple before rome became an empìre
elguerreromuisca 2 years ago
Who told you? The history of Europe, like everywhere else, has always been written in blood. When Rome fell, the Dark Ages came. Big improvement, huh?
Gazzara5 2 years ago 7
boudicca great leader, awful general
harshvgaus 3 years ago
in the 17 hundreds, the British could walk over the italians like grass.
Saphiregun 3 years ago
i know this show it is kick ass
hammerofgod43 3 years ago
Man, I'm not even of Celtic descent by any stretch of the imagination as far as I know. But I still find Boudicca to be a source of inspiration, much more so than many of the "idols" of today. She's one person I would most like to have a conversation with. Ah for the power to bring back the dead.
I find it amusing now, that the Romans saw the Britons as uncivilized. Their culture was perhaps as complex as that of the Romans.
AeriaGl0ris 3 years ago
To the Romans, the inferior culture was always that of the conquered. I very much doubt that they truly appraised the complexity of religious customs, philosophical thought, etc. when making such sweeping assessments.
AemiliaPaulla 3 years ago 2
Are you kidding? The britons were nothing but a bunch of illiterate tribal savages. Roman occupation brought civilisation to Britain.
The Romans regarded the Britions as an inferior culture just like how the British regarded the blacks in the 18th and 19th centuries.
mooncoonh8tr 3 years ago
Does civilisation involve killing your own family members, sleeping with your mother, raping women a la several of the Roman emperors (Nero, Caligula etc)? Or burning christians alive? Or feeding them to animals? Or enslaving whole peoples? Yep, that's civilsation isn't it and why we don't do those things now. The Romans were motivated by greed and the need to provide slaves, not by any altrustic moral desire to help civilise others!
219970 2 years ago
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so raping boys, killing people in the coliseum, and making animals rape wimen is civilization, I dont think so....
elguerreromuisca 2 years ago
do you have the battle of the boyne?
i know iwas there fighting with the French
revengeofcleveland 3 years ago
kneel British pig and kiss the feet of your Roman master
tacotony24 3 years ago
Why do the roman soldiers who are saying "Our mission is to beat civilization into the britons" british?
dianaandjackiejfk 3 years ago
This is a British program. I don't think they could get actual Italians on short notice.
Tareltonlives 3 years ago
of course now theres no reason why modern day britons should hate modern day italians
Gotterdammerung14 3 years ago
modern day italians are goths or barbarians
Dhaune 3 years ago
Yes, the Ostrogoths settled in Southern Italy and the Lombards settled in the North.
Gotterdammerung14 3 years ago
Silence, you're just an insane....
zaistinuipravdu 3 years ago
Not really. The Germanic invaders were assimilated by the Italians natives.
Tareltonlives 3 years ago
It's sad that most young women today look up to degenerate pop stars and not great aryans like her. That is why I am support neo-paganism. Women in ancient pre-Christian Europe, especially among the Nordic, Germanic, Celtic, and Slavic peoples, had enormous social, political, and spiritual influence and power in their communities. WPWW
Gotterdammerung14 3 years ago
well some women had, if they were part of the noblity..., England is sill today ruled by a queen btw...
truthspeaker969 3 years ago
That really didn't come about until after the Britons converted to Christianity
Gotterdammerung14 3 years ago
briton rules boudica rules, rome can suck my big fat cock.
kierenxxxx 3 years ago
you have a really likeable girl-friend with interesting hobbies :)
truthspeaker969 3 years ago 4
yeah, she's a bit of a perv
Gotterdammerung14 3 years ago
whoops. I was showing my friend, who is a girl, the audio preview thing where the computer voice says what you typed. She typed that last comment and pressed post, still pretty funny but if anyone on my friends list sees it it was NOT me.
Gotterdammerung14 3 years ago 3
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cum in my mouth you dirty dum
Gotterdammerung14 3 years ago
I dont see how they just condemn the slaughter of the druids. I'm sure there were political reasons for it, seeing that according to this the Druids united the British tribes...that is political, and any conquering nation wants to eliminate political opposition....that was the way, to condemn and make the romans out to be killers is wrong, that was life, and humans are humans. I say look at politics
Pity we don't have more to go by. I do enjoy the vid though
KenCaesarXL 3 years ago
This is an awesome show! I saw the Hastings episode a while back. The BBC make the best documentaries.
Trablo 3 years ago
Wretched Little Romans!!
acerb45666555 3 years ago
Indeed!
dianaandjackiejfk 3 years ago
What does he mean by "united by common cause"?
matkent123 3 years ago
matkent123: he means the United Common Cause against the fascism and violent tyranny of the previous German and Japanese regimes excessive and abusive behaviour!!
acerb45666555 3 years ago
What about the italian regime under Benito Mussolini aswell? What is excessive and abusive behaviour? lol.
matkent123 3 years ago
VIVA ITALIA! DVX
Gotterdammerung14 3 years ago
LOL, "she was unusually clever for a woman!" Not a very politically correct comment :D
ErikGJensen 3 years ago
More Battlefield Britain, please.
Steve17010 3 years ago
I wish someone would upload the actual warrior queen movie, The documentary is cool, but the movie looks pretty good too from Masterpiece Theatre.
radstorm 3 years ago
Impressive, Roaman bring civilization to barbarian druids xD
CanoPinto 3 years ago
can I ask you what you think when Americans say exactly the same thing about their war in Iraq?
Triplesod 3 years ago
nvm
TenthLegionX 3 years ago
what is this shows name? i would like it to buy it
TenthLegionX 3 years ago 2
The name of the series is"Battlefield Britain".
Steve17010 3 years ago
The Druids were the bane of many of English kings well after the Romans abandoned England. Most Romans, i.e., the senate and publicans considered the Britons as "Blue Skinned Oyster Crackers."
DWol001 3 years ago 2
I find that a bit hard to believe. We're sure that many Celtic-Briton kingdoms reverted to Celtic systems of government Post Rome, but did they revert to paganism? Or did it ever really go away?
beepandbop 3 years ago
Brittanicus!
"Wretched little Brits!"
Hehe, I love that. I wish people would call us that more today.
Triplesod 3 years ago
britan was romanised
Quentin0000000000 3 years ago