The Apocalyptic Downfall of Roman Britain

Around 410 Britain become the first province of the Roman Empire to fall into barbarian hands. Following that the British isles would experience one of the worst downfalls in human history. This short history documentory is ment to conrast the severe differences between Roman and Post Roman Britain.

[historyrhymes]

Check out a brand new video on the same topic The Extermination of England's Natives. How Britain Became English

[giromohlaalu]

Next question: If the gauls were so inteligent why did they become french?

[julianhermanubis]

Having visited some Roman sites in Britain, the sad part is how little has survived. The largest remaining intact structures are Hadrian's Wall (which is much reduced from what it once was), Portchester Castle (Portus Adurni), and the Caerleon Amphitheater. The rest are largely just foundations (e.g., Vindolanda and Housesteads Roman Fort). I haven't been to Wroxeter, but there's apparently a basilica wall still standing. There are also some fragmentary Roman defensive walls in other locations. Otherwise, every major building was destroyed or used as the foundation of something else. The destruction was that total. And another phenomenon is that there are a number of Dark Ages structures that are entirely made or mostly made of stones quarried from Roman structures. The fall of the Western Roman Empire in Britain must have been a cultural catastrophe on a scale that's seldom been seen in human history.

[flarednight]

The Isle of Wight still has a couple of Roman Villas, fairly well preserved. we still have a lot of buildings/pubs/castles over 1000 years old still in use. and one of our roman villas is from 280AD.

[davidcooke]

"But besides roads, and education, sanitation, medicine, peace, wine and aquaducts, what have the Romans ever done for us?" -Reg

[Tyrannosaur]

Romans: Create beautiful, elaborate architecture that last Millenia.
Saxons: If you mix this dirt with human shit you can build a wall 🤯

[kanebarton]

He's back and covered one of my favorite subjects in European history win win!!

[petertwins]

To be fair, the Romans first set foot on the Island with Caesar’s expeditions in 55 and 54 BC. While they couldn’t establish themselves at the time, it was still the earliest

[FearlessPP]

It’s always astonishing how Britain such a small place with an abundance of domestic turmoil at home throughout its history still managed to conquer a large portion of the world.

[chongxina]

What a great video. I live in England and haven’t seen any Roman stuff personally. I assumed there wasn’t that much. Amazing how there’s hardly anything left, truly cataclysmic.

[ClayandPapyrus]

The downfall of the Roman Empire is much like the Bronze Age Collapse, where the aftermath was apocalyptic. As your channel name suggests, History does Rhyme.

[teenagestacker]

The topic of after the collapse of Western Rome has always fascinated me. Living in the ruins of a once great civilization is the stuff of great fiction, and one of my favourite topics. The fact that it happened so dramatically in our own time is beyond fascinating in every way and why I got into classics in the first place. It's also why I love breath of the wild so much

[polignac]

got recommended this thinking it was some 1 million subscriber channel with how impressive your scripts and visuals are. keep this up. you earned a new subscriber.

[murdockhancock]

Rome's once invincible domain shattered into a million pieces, each one controlled by a military strongman who wanted to collect them all. the glory of Rome was gone for good and the dark ages had begun.

One of the best lines from a documentary

[rafaelomansan]

The plague that affected Britain was the Jutinian Plague, which means some of the old trade connections ( or maybe new ones created by the saxons ) with the still very much Roman Mediterranean Sea were still present.
The same plague and vulcanic eruption were also responsible for stopping the Roman Reconquest of the West by the Eastern Empire, perphaps if it did not happen, it would be very possible that the dream of Roman Civilization returning to Britain would have happened in the next decades. One can only imagine Eastern Roman ships arriving in Britain, and Greek speaking Legions reconquering the island...
Alas, Great video.

[Kevin-mxvi]

Judging by the thumbnail, the Romans took the food, soap, and dentists with them.

[UntoldHistoryAnimations]

HE'S ALIVE ! PRAISE THE BULGARIAN TZAR

[Grombrindal]

This video is fantastic I don’t know how this channel doesn’t have a million subscribers. History is so fantastic yet terrifying-we hope so dearly our modern civilization survives and we hardly think it’ll ever die out yet every example from history tells us it won’t last.

[tiffanywyatt]

Britain really has an interesting story. It was a land where cultures merged it's just so interesting. Celts. Native Bretons. The Viking invaders. Romans. Eventually came anglo Saxons. It would be interesting to see a britian that wasn't invaded like imagine all the picts, celts, jutes and such being all around the islands there.

[kristianferencik]

A couple of things:
1. The ability to read and write wasn't gone. The ability to read and write in Latin was gone for the general population was gone. Literacy in the medieval times was based on the ability to read and write in Latin but general population still needed to be able to write reciepts and their name in their own language in order to keep track of taxes.
2. The Anglo saxons did admire the roman architecture, so much so that they ended up replicating it in some of their own architecture, it was just that they didn't have the knowledge or resources to maintain it. Over time the buildings break down and then get demolished to make room for other structures, which the same thing happened in Italy to many Roman architecture after the fall of the western roman empire.
3. The people of England still saw themselves as roman, once Anglo saxons invaded Britain, they did not force the inhabitants to change their culture, they wanted to integrate themselves to become and inherite Roman culture. Their coinage based on Roman currency, changing their religion to the new religion to the one that came from Rome.