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#Londinium90AD: Gaius and Germanicus ask if america will disappear as did Roman Britain, remembered only as "the works of Giants." Michael Vlahos. #Friendsofhistorydebatingsociety

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🗓️ 16 October 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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#Londinium90AD: Gaius and Germanicus ask if america will disappear as did Roman Britain, remembered only as "the works of Giants." Michael Vlahos. #Friendsofhistorydebatingsociety

1863 Death of Cato

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For a century and puzzling through how they'll work out the two wars. Now two wars, and there's

1:00.3

always the possibility that there will be others coming along. The great powers are flummoxed

1:06.7

to be able to settle any one of these wars, but now they've got two of them simultaneously.

1:12.0

At the same time, I tell Germanicus—I remind Germanicus—that we're in Londonium, which

1:17.6

is a very comfortable place for us here, not only one ID, first century, of the Roman Empire,

1:23.6

and the second century, it will even be more comfortable. We can see that. We can also see that

1:28.5

sometime around the year 400 AD, in that many centuries from where we sit right now,

1:37.4

Londonium will be abandoned, and the angle of Saxons—the angled tribe and the Saxon tribe from

1:44.9

Germany—will dominate this landscape, and Londonium itself will fall into disrepair—the

1:52.8

swamp will take over. The stones will be raided to build other buildings,

1:57.9

and no one will live where we're sitting right now. Several centuries later, down the river,

2:04.0

there will be a new settlement run in some fashion as the trading post, but the memory of where

2:11.2

we're sitting right now will be lost. So much so that the angle of Saxons will have a word for

2:19.0

this city, Londonium. They'll call it the work of the giants. I tell that story because

2:25.7

it's about memory, and Germanicus and I have been speaking of memory of the 21st century.

2:35.6

It happened to Rome. The power of Rome was forgotten on the British Isles for centuries,

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