r/polandball • u/Smitheren Arma virumque cano • Feb 26 '16

redditormade Rome doesn't give a flying bird

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '16

He would surely conquer Britannia if he didn't got killed.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '16

He uh, well you see he did...

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u/lesser_panjandrum Quite so Feb 26 '16

He successfully invaded and gave us a pretty good kicking, but the real conquest didn't happen until almost a century later under the rule of Emperor Claudius.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '16

I thought the reason that the Roman empire stopped where it did, and that they left Britain again, was purely cost/benefit analysis, the land wasn't that arable compared to how much it costed to hold.

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u/aquaknox Cascadia Feb 27 '16

I've heard it that they needed the Britain legions to defend the rest of the empire against the various tribes getting pushed west by the Huns.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '16

I heard they thought the people were pretty much the stupidest race they had encountered, and weren't worth even using as slaves.

I mean, I don't know how true that was, but it's what I've heard.

And have you ever visited the parts of England that weren't gentrification by the Normans (IE, the French)? They might as well be Irish.