Why Couldn't the Romans Conquer Scotland? #shorts #rome #map

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[mitchellminer]

"Minimal economic incentive" is a great phrase.

[ArAnXx]

I appreciate these maps that show mountains, I always thought the main island didn't have mountains and it made no sense

[_-]

So they basically said "The locals are mental and there's fuck all there"

[nightowl]

They had to fight Mel gibson in blue paint so they backed off

[bachmaij]

“The Romans fierced face guerrilla warfare, ” huh? Sounds pretty intense, indeed.

[cfc]

Well, no offense to the scots, if you are coming from Mediterranean paradise, rainy, cold, rocky hills aren’t very appealing. In a world with no central heating, I’ll take the seaside Italian villa instead.

[db]

"The Romans fierced face resistance" nice

[gogalevus]

And nowadays, Scotland uses Roman law while England is part of the Common law

[dtikvxcdgjbv]

No enough local resources. Because of that, newly conquered Caledonia was not economically self-sustainable.
No state wants new territory that only brings permanent drain of money.

[damace]

They conquered it, but they realised that no one would settle in that land - so holding it to be absorbed into the empire was impossible

[Malky]

The Romans actually beat the Caledonians in a large pitched battle in the Highlands called Mons Graupius but they couldn't hold onto the land so they moved up Scotland building walls across the country.

Then, with the Caledonians switching to guerilla tactics exclusively after Mons Graupius, the Romans realised that all they'd really done was trap themselves in with Caledonians so they pulled back to their southernmost defence (Hadrian's Wall) and were content to stay there.

[brianh]

Everybody imagines that Scotland was always as it is now. However, during the Roman era Scotland was forested. The Romans called it the Great Forest of Caledon. It was an extremely rugged and foreboding terrain. The Roman forces were continually ambushed as they tried to push their way north through it.

[SubFox]

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[sahilparab]

They were scared that in the future Mel Gibson would make a historically inaccurate movie about the romans. Like he did with Braveheart!

[marioweinreich]

There was a small village in now northern France that did not surrender. So they wanted to do this first before going further north.

[PeoplesProtector]

Damn Domitian. If Agricola had went further and succeeded in Scotland, he may have even moved on to Ireland and we would have been blessed by the Roman presence.

[leekelly]

Because Scotland in Roman times was known as Caledonia, but that’s not the reason, the reason is weather and midges, if 1 doesn’t get you the other will.

[sean]

The Roman's realized if they conquered Scotland, they would get shittier at Football

[shaynesmoot]

SCOTTLAND the only native indigenous tribe to ever succeed in deterring a colonization after colonization for over 900 years....

[arcanecrisis]

They were shivering and shaking in the northern rain and snow, watching naked, blue painted giants show thier arse to them, showing no sensitivity to the cold. The romans were like "fuck this"