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In 43 AD the emperor Claudius sent four legions to invade southern England. The Romans did not find a united opposition. The peoples of these areas were divided into several kingdoms. Some of them welcomed the Romans. Southern England had had diplomatic links with the Romans for quite some time. It is thought that Claudius wanted conquest to bolster his political position in Rome. He had been proclaimed emperor by the imperial guard which had murdered his predecessor, Caligula. Moreover, Gaul rebels often took refuge in Britain. Officially the troops were sent to restore Verica the king of the Atrebates, who had been deposed and exiled. There as a conflict in southern England. The Catuvellauni were expanding at the expense of the Trinovantes and the Atrebates.
The general Aulus Plautius won two battles in the southeast which were sufficient for victory. The Roman army was superior and the Romans effectively fought only against the dominnat people of the area, the Catuvellauni. Elven British tribes surrendered. The general Vespasian was sent to conquer the southeast of England.
The North of England was conquered later (in 78-79) by the general Agricola.
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EzraThe Romans conquered Western Europe up to part of central Germany, southeastern Europe (the Balkan Peninsula) the Middle East west of Persia (Iran) and Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the coastal part of the rest on North Africa.
The Roman Empire covered the following present day countries or parts of present day countries:
Western Europe: Italy, Malta, Spain, Portugal, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Holland south of the river Rhine, southern Germany and part of central Germany, Switzerland, Lichtenstein, Austria and England and Wales.
Eastern Europe: western Hungary, part of western Slovakia, Slovenia, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Montenegro, Macedonia, Albania, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova and a slither of western Ukraine.
Asia: Turkey, Cyprus, Armenia, northern Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Palestine, Jordan, and the northern part of the coast of the Red Sea in Saudi Arabia. Sometimes the empire also included the whole of Iraq.
Africa: Egypt, the coastal part of Libya, Tunisia, the coastal part of Algeria, and northern Morocco.
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Who tried to invade Britain first?
The Romans and the Normans.=]The last people to successfully invade Britain were the Normans from Normandy, France in 1066, although they did not invade Scotland which is part of Britain.
Why did the Romans not invade Russia?
BECUASE RUSSIA WAS WAY TOO GOOD FOR THEM!
Which countrys did the Romans invade?
The Romans conquered Greece, Romania, Egypt, Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, and the top part of Africa.
Why were some Romans happy to be conquered by the Huns?
The Huns did not conquer the Roman Empire. They raided the eastern part of the empire three times, tried to invade Gaul but were repelled, and tried to invade to Italy, but had to give up because of a famine in Italy and because the Roman army attacked their homeland. It was said that some Gallo-Romans did not mind the conquests by the Germanic peoples because they were unhappy with the Roman state's oppressive taxation regime.
Why did the Romans hate Hannibal?
Because he killed lots of roman soldiers and invaded their land.That may be so, but Romans mostly hated Hannibal because he wanted to invade the Meditarrean Sea.
