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Thank God the BBC is portraying Roman Britain as ethnically diverse. I mean, who cares about historical accuracy, right?pic.twitter.com/SqE83Pmf2h
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Roman Britain was ethnically diverse, almost by design. To begin, occupying legions were drawn from other parts of the Empire.
The Romans learned a lesson earlier with the Germans. Don't give the locals an 'in' to occupying military forces.
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We have accounts of 'moors', along with (modern-day) Iraqi & Syrian soldiers on Hadrian's Wall. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=J8rVeu2go8IC&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=black+soldiers+hadrian%27s+wall&source=bl&ots=MuT17fSIEX&sig=VGbfsaELXx6oTkVDcTM7J5kj7dM&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjD4cWLzKTVAhUnLMAKHT3LB9M4ChDoAQg-MAk#v=onepage&q=black%20soldiers%20hadrian's%20wall&f=false …
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Every camp in the province (apart from tiny outposts) would have a 'vicus', a settlement where wives, kids, slaves & tradespeople lived...
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...many of the inhabitants of the 'vicus' would travel with the legion, especially if they were considered 'elite'.
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Provincial governors posted to Britannia would take slaves with them (from anywhere in the Empire) & some would have been gifted freedom.
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London, as the capital of the province, was especially diverse. People lived, worked & died together from all over.
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Lant Street Girl was 14 when she died. She came from the southern Mediterranean. https://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/discover/ancient-dna-written-bone …pic.twitter.com/UH6vIzS5uR
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Spiralfields Woman's DNA can be traced directly to Rome. Probably an aristocrat. http://m.historyextra.com/article/romans/how-we-solved-mystery-roman-princess …pic.twitter.com/C0R36PgBP5
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Not just London, we have evidence of North Africans as high-status individuals in York. https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.independent.co.uk/life-style/history/evidence-of-upper-class-africans-living-in-roman-york-1914553.html%3famp …pic.twitter.com/jfQKVNVxKG
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Every year we dig up new remains that suggest that Roman Britain, anywhere larger than a military outpost, was an ethnically diverse place.
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You can talk proto-fascist edgelord Alt-Right bullshit as much as you want, but you want to talk history, be prepared to be schooled.
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PS. Get fucked.
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West Germanic tribes, not Germans... but west Germanic tribes are hard to disintguish from Celtic tribes,could be that Celts and Germanics/1
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I wonder if this guy gets as upset when ppl say Egypt was all black
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Indeed, the Romans made assimilation distastefully mandatory, but they knew they wanted the worlds best and brightest to be "Roman".
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Assimilation into what? Romans wanted 3 things from provinces, taxes, slaves, & soldiers. Otherwise, free to do as pleased.
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Cultural assimilation is a powerful tool for collecting taxes and soldiers from your annexed provinces. It did makes the slaves problematic.
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It was a means to an end.
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Peter Heather is the go to guy on this topic of Roman military I noticed that the Roman military expanded far but was still homogenous.
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Sounds familiar
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Legions rarely posted to provinces where drawn. Particularly Britain. Due to Roman recruitment practices + inadequate local Roman population
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