What happened to the Roman Britons? France and Spain were invaded by Germanic peoples but they remained Latin. How was Britain different?
What happened to the Roman Britons? France and Spain were invaded by Germanic peoples but they remained Latin...
Ian Gray
Henry Lewis
not enough of them
Samuel Roberts
tldr we dont know for sure but they were either killed, assimilated, fled, or a mix of the three
you can delete the thread now
Carter Hill
>What happened to the Roman Britons? France and Spain were invaded by Germanic peoples but they remained Latin. How was Britain different?
britain was conquered by Anglo-Saxon teutonices of Frisia who spoke proto english this replaced the celtic/latin speakers, also modern italian people are not the same thing as roman or italic ethnicity, italy saw lots of non ethnic italin/roman migrations of slaves and whatnot that later on became italians.
Brandon Jenkins
>britain was conquered by Anglo-Saxon teutonices of Frisia
>saw lots of non ethnic italin
eternal germanoids
also britain was invaded by not just frisians but jutes, saxons, and angles (so basically northern germans and danes), which lent itself to this phenotype.
Ayden Thompson
Britannia was never as Romanized as the rest of Western Europe. Likewise, there wasn’t really a lot of Roman settlement there either. It was viewed as a backwater, and when the empire collapsed, it was abandoned. That’s why it was so easy for a relatively small group of Germanic warbands to conquer the whole island.
Luke Hill
They got fucked off to Wales. Other reasons include low population compared to other provinces so the invasions had a higher effect on the people than say the Franks who genetically didin't really change the Gaulic Romans or Visigoths in Hispania, Britannia was invaded by something about 5 different groups.
Caleb Sanchez
I’ve noticed some welsh people are darker in complexion (pic is a welsh footballer) does this mean anything to what you said
Landon Parker
no, likely the indigenous population looked a bit med to begin with. Some scots and irish look med as well.
T. Med looking celtic decent dude
Christopher Adams
Welsh is the English name, but they themselves called eachother Britons, they were displaced by the Angles and Saxons and were pushed to what we know as Wales. They were the people in Britannia before the English.
Charles Phillips
brittania was still pretty romanized end of day. They just got really badly BTFO. Breton from france ancient refugees from that conflict
Jeremiah Martinez
Britain was never as completely assimilated into Roman culture the way France and Spain were, mainly due to distance and a relative lack of value to the empire. That's why Rome lost control of it way before they lost control of their Mediterranean territory.
Isaiah Turner
Roman influence was pretty limited even during their rule, so the Celtic and Germanic elements were still more prevalent.
Robert Myers
they didn't want to stick around
William Murphy
they were too dumb to learn a civilized language
Gavin Morris
>Roman Emperor Julius Caesar
>Julius Caesar conquered Britain
Anthony Wood
but they got BTFO by the brits
Jackson Bailey
it was never as romanized as gaul and iberia + the germanic invaders were far more numerous
Chase Jenkins
>caesar
>conquering britain
is he having a laugh?
David King
wtf brits are frogs
Landon Butler
They got invaded by Germanic peoples in three waves. First the Anglo-Saxons, then the Danes, and finally the Normans.
Kevin Gomez
my ancestors :)
Xavier Morgan
He didn't conquer Britain and he wasn't Emperor. Not a high quality image.
Jace Moore
Lol, julis Caeser never said that, he said about how we lived and that's it
Chase Long
>he said about how we lived
Henry Williams
i don't think cicero would even have been aware of britain
Blake Edwards
But he did invade britain, so thats wrong you fucking moron
Christopher Long
he attempted to invade britain twice
the first time was a non-starter because as per usual the romans struggled to deal with a 20-mile sea crossing
the second time he headed back to comfy gaul because of how much trouble the celts were giving him and it was easier dealing with the french
Jayden Hill
lil bitch caesar got so utterly btfo'd by britons he started shitting on them the second he (barely) returned back to gaul LMAO
Jaxson Mitchell
>the romans struggled to deal with a 20-mile sea crossing
That strait was at the border of the known world, it would be like today's Cape Horn.
Joseph Murphy
They ran to the north when the Saxons invaded and lost their Latin language and had it replaced with welsh.
The opposite happened in Gaul where the Latin replaced the native language.
Scots and Irish primarily descend from Easter Austrians and Norsemen.
It wasn't proto-english it was Frisian.
Proto emplys it had much to do with modern English where it doesn't.