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Introduction - Rome
Longer Period Study: The Foundations of Rome, 753-440 BC
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DS 1: Hannibal and the Second Punic War, 218-201 BC
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DS 2: Cleopatra: Rome and Egypt, 69-30 BC
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DS 3: Britannia: From Conquest to Province, AD 43-c. 84
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The Roman invasion of Britain was the final stage in a century of contact when two very different cultures interacted in a number of ways. We are fortunate in having not only written sources (from the Roman point of view) but also a huge amount of fascinating archaeology which sheds a lot more light on what kind of place Britain was and what kind of peoples lived in Britain 2,000 years ago. More than any other topic it combines a multiplicity of sources, with more information still being discovered to give us a clearer picture of ‘what actually happened’ and to pose more questions. The topic also raises important questions for our own age – of imperialism and attitudes towards it, and multiculturalism.
In a nutshell, if you want to understand the question ‘what have the Romans ever done for us’, study Roman Britain!
Read the OCR Prescribed Source Booklet for Britannia here: Word
Corrections to print edition
p.270 - the missing page range in the SQ box is 252-255
p.272 - the top source quotation should be black not blue, PS icon should not be there (this is not a PS)
p.284 - first bullet point about Q9 should not refer to the passage as there is none for this question