Hadrian, Building the wall발음듣기
Hadrian, Building the wall
From London he probably came to the far North of England, to one of the remotest points of the Roman Empire.발음듣기
Hadrian inherited an empire that suffered from serious problems of over-stretch. and one of his first big tasks was to fix the limits of the Empire that Rome could control.발음듣기
He fixed it in Germany, Syria, North Africa and here in Northumberland, on the borders between England and Scotland with its greatest of all surviving Hadrianic Boundaries.발음듣기
This great stone fort you see here on the edge of the Empire: the northern edge of the world.발음듣기
It was a brutally efficient security installation that allowed a very efficient military and economic control of the area here.발음듣기
Because of ongoing trouble and warfare, they had to be much more efficient and they built this huge structure.발음듣기
Originally only to Newcastle, and then extended right the way to Wall's End on the Tyne Estuary.발음듣기
The little garrisons of maybe 20-30 men who originally were intended to look after Hadrian's Wall.발음듣기
Walking along this wall you get some idea of what the Romans were up against in garrisoning something like this.발음듣기
If you look at the many walls that go up in the world today, we can get a sense of the original intention behind Hadrian's Wall.발음듣기
It was a very aggressive symbol and also a very efficient practical tool of Roman dominance.발음듣기
This was built all in stone and therefore seems now very impressive, But there was the Limes in Germany and a similar sort of border in Northern Africa.발음듣기
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