Back to the Definitely All Romans calendar
It is 43 years since our last calendar entry and the reason for that is that there has been very little change. Various emperors had come and gone
but life for people in Britain just went on as before.
London had now grown to be home to about 40,000 people. It always
had a wall on its northern side and in those days the whole town was north of the River Thames, but in this year the Romans finished building a wall along the
north bank of the said River Thames. This was seen as some form of protection against some of the non-Roman European tribes who occasionally attacked from across
the English Channel. Sailing up the Thames would have been very easy. These people were known as Angles, Saxons and Jutes.
This is also the first time that there is a written record of the
tribes in Caledonia being called Picts. Meanwhile another tribe of people from somewhere in Spain had occupied Ireland and the Western coastal areas of Caledonia.
Just to confuse things, these people were called Scots. You can see where that was going can’t you?
The first map shows you how large the Roman Empire was at the start of this period and, to be honest, it didn’t change much for almost 200 hundred
years, As you can see, the empire wasn’t just in Europe but extended all along the northern coast of Africa and further east in what is now Turkey and a bit
beyond. All of this was run from Rome by one emperor with governors in the various countries.
Forward to 260AD
