The Origins of London
The Ancients
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What's the Initial Evolution of the Conquest?
In the fifties, what rome has to do is look after its legions. It's got a lot of soldiery based in britain. And as they exercise a war of conquest, and thats what's going on, they are seizing lands from defeated peoples. When you have a big campaigning army, you can't rely on be able to feed it locally. So you've got to have the logistical support mechanism to keep the conquest going. The thames then becomes this beautiful way of moving goods inland. Its tidal so the tides bring the ships up. You've got these gravel islands in southark these iots that allow a bridge to be built at the site of l
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