By A.D. 87 they had conquered most of Britain. Q: Did Rome conquer England? Yes, the Roman Empire invaded and conquered the majority of the British Isles. The Roman conquest of Britain included modern-day England and Wales, and a small portion of modern-day Scotland.

When the Romans invaded, they built a fort beside the River Thames. This was where traders came from all over the empire to bring their goods to Britain. It grew and grew, until it was the most important city in Roman Britain. The Romans built walls around many of their towns.

When the Romans came they modernised Britain forever. They taught them about hygiene, about clean drinking water, a calendar, laws and legal system. They also introduced new infrastructure such as straight roads, central heating, aqueducts as well as concrete.

The Romans introduced many fruits and vegetables previously unknown to the Britons, some of which are still part of the modern nation diet: to name a few, asparagus, turnips, peas, garlic, cabbages, celery, onions, leeks, cucumbers, globe artichokes, figs, medlars, sweet chestnuts, cherries and plums were all …

By the early 5th century, the Roman Empire could no longer defend itself against either internal rebellion or the external threat posed by Germanic tribes expanding in Western Europe. This situation and its consequences governed the eventual permanent detachment of Britain from the rest of the Empire.

There was a great spread of Angles, Saxons, and Franks after the Romans left Britain, with minor rulers, while the next major ruler, it is thought, was a duo named Horsa and Hengist. There was also a Saxon king, the first who is now traced to all royalty in Britain and known as Cerdic.

The early Middle Ages seemed very backwards because you had Germanic and Eastern barbarians who did not value the institutions that the Romans had built, and thus they wanted nothing else but to loot and pillage the ruins of the empire.

Roman technology was most definitely “lost” after the fall of the empire. I cite only one example, concrete. It’s sufficient. Concrete is an ubiquitous and fundamental technology.

In 476 C.E. Romulus, the last of the Roman emperors in the west, was overthrown by the Germanic leader Odoacer, who became the first Barbarian to rule in Rome. The order that the Roman Empire had brought to western Europe for 1000 years was no more.

The Roman Empire ceased to be Roman 283 AD when Diocletianus moved the capital from Rome to Mediolanum. Only the Western Empire fell. The Eastern Empire existed just as ever – and the Eastern Empire based on Constantinople was the true Roman Empire.

Here’s a piece by piece enumeration of Roman History. Total Battle Deaths: Pitirim Sorokin (Social and Cultural Dynamics, vol. 3, 1937, 1962) estimated that Roman Armies suffered some 885,000 battlefield casualties throughout their nine-century history, from 400 BCE to 500 CE.