Roman military policy towards Britain: conquest and expansion: Practice Questions

• a.Trajan
• b.Hadrian
• c.Claudius
• d.Domitian

• a.The administrative capital of a tribal territory governed directly by a client king.
• b.A town where the inhabitants were granted certain rights of Roman citizenship and governed their own internal affairs.
• c.A settlement specifically reserved for the settlement of retired legionary veterans.
• d.A small, unofficial roadside settlement that grew spontaneously around a Roman fort.

• a.It indicates that Britain was more economically advanced than Rome itself by the late 1st century AD.
• b.It shows that Roman architecture was rejected by the British elite in favor of traditional roundhouses.
• c.It proves that the Roman military lived in luxury while the procurators lived in poverty.
• d.It demonstrates the rapid adoption of sophisticated Roman cultural tastes and the high status of loyal client kings like Cogidubnus.

• a.Prasutagus of the Iceni
• b.Cartimandua of the Brigantes
• c.Venutius of the Brigantes
• d.Cogidubnus of the Regni

• a.It provided the legal basis for the Emperor Hadrian to initiate the construction of the Stanegate Road.
• b.It forced the Romans to intervene militarily to support a loyal client ruler, eventually leading to the direct annexation of the north.
• c.It allowed the Romans to completely ignore the northern frontier while they focused on the conquest of Wales.
• d.It resulted in the Brigantes successfully forming a pan-British alliance that captured Camulodunum.

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