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Episode 19: The Romanization of Britain

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The Roman Invasion of Britain

The romans never realized a complete conquest of the british isles, only a portion of it. So that meant that the regions which we know to day as scotland and ireland retained their celtic culture and languages. i mentione in an earlier episode that the word breeches was a native celtic word for pants. We know from recorded sources that the romans were once amused by these barbarian garments. But they soon decided they weren't such a bad idea.

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