Current Events > Did England really look like AC Valhalla in the 7th century?

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Like huge Roman buildings everywhere? I'm trying to figure out how historically accurate any of this is.

Everywhere? There's like what, 4 cities in that massive ass map.

LeoRavus posted...

Like huge Roman buildings everywhere? I'm trying to figure out how historically accurate any of this is.

Not sure about specific roman buildings but Britain was part of the Roman Empire for about 400 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Britain

The Romans owned everything south of Scotland and they built a wall across the island to keep out the people up North. The Anglo Saxons (Germans) flooded into whats now England and pushed the "Romano-Britains" (imagine celts, like the Irish are today that had been romanized by being part of the empire for centuries) into Wales.

Over the centuries the Anglo Saxons became "the English" and converted to Christianity and then in the 800's Britain was invaded be "the great heathen army" that was made up of northmen (danes, swedes, Norwegians).

I should have said 9th century. But yeah seems like they had a lot of stuff still standing 400 years after the fall of Rome.

LeoRavus posted...

I should have said 9th century. But yeah seems like they had a lot of stuff still standing 400 years after the fall of Rome.

There's still some Roman stuff still standing 1600 years after the fall of Rome.

Its hard to know how long Roman stuff lasted after the fall. This was an English poem dated somewhere around that time period.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ruin

This masonry is wondrous; fates broke it
courtyard pavements were smashed; the work of giants is decaying.
Roofs are fallen, ruinous towers,
the frosty gate with frost on cement is ravaged,
chipped roofs are torn, fallen,
undermined by old age. The grasp of the earth possesses
the mighty builders, perished and fallen,
the hard grasp of earth, until a hundred generations
of people have departed......

The people at the time were aware of the fact that were living in the ruins of a civilization that could build greater things than they were capable of.

Aren't there still Roman baths in London somewhere?

Edit: They are in... Bath

its around but the map has been condensed to make it seem like its everywhere