Boudica
The Ancients
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The Origins of the Roman Empire
Buddhika and her army wreak pretty incredible damage on Colchester they burn it to the ground. After Colchester they march on London and then at least in tasitus's account they march on one further city that is their lameum before facing off the Romans in actually a battlefield that we don't know exactly where that was. There were even locals who were made priests and curators of this divine cult so by destroying that very clear marker of a roman religiosity or a roman ideology of rulership and divinity they really got at the heart of what was the roman impact at that time.
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