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Title: A short history of England
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Cheyney, Edward Potts, 1861-1947
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Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Ginn and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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anity disappeared ; that the Latin andCeltic languages alike ceased to be spoken in the greater part ofthe country. All these gave place to a new language, a newreligion, and new customs brought in by invaders. Certain material structures, such as roads, bridges, and buildings,remained ; the draining and clearing of swamps and forests was apermanent benefit; a few new animals, trees, and plants had beenintroduced ; methods of agriculture were preserved to later times;and many boundaries then laid down were permanently kept.Except for these things Roman Britain had passed entirely away. 34 A SHORT HISTORY OF ENGLAND 22. Summary of the Roman Period.—The period of Romansupremacy in Britain was a single episode rather than part of thecontinuous progress of the development of the English nation,but it was an episode of much interest. After the beginning ofthe conquest, a.d. 43, the Romans rapidly introduced a highlydeveloped civilization, which retained its dominance until the S^/y-v^ Up
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Roman Mosaic Pavement recently uncovered at Aldborough withdrawal of the legions in 407. Those two dates mark thebeginning and the end of civilization in Britain for many cen-turies. It is impossible to believe that no influence was exertedon later English history by the period of Roman control, but itwas less than in any other European province of the Empire.The new barbarian settlers, mixed though they may have beenwith the old population, had to begin the work of creating acivilization and building a nation almost anew. ROMAN BRITAIN 35 General Reading. — The best short account is in the little book,Scaktii, Roman Britain. The book by Wright, The Celt, the Roman, andthe Saxon, referred to at the close of the previous chapter, is particularlygood for Roman Britain. The fullest and best narrative of the events ofthis period is in Ramsay, Foundations of England, Vol. I, chap. vii. Contemporary Sources. — Tacitus, Agricola, sects. 8-40; Annates, BookXIV. Tacitus was the son-in-law

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