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#Londinium90AD: Gaius & Germanicus discuss the sudden exit of Roman Britain - abandonng buried silver and gold fortunes Michael Vlahos. Friends of History Debating Society. @Michalis_Vlahos

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🗓️ 26 February 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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#Londinium90AD: Gaius & Germanicus discuss the sudden exit of Roman Britain - abandonng buried silver and gold fortunes Michael Vlahos. Friends of History Debating Society. @Michalis_Vlahos

2007 "The Romans Building a Fort at Mancenion" by Ford Madox Brown, a mural at Manchester Town Hall.

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This is the Friends of History Debating Society.

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I am Gaius, a Roman Britain.

0:35.4

A equus class living in Londinium, 91 a.D. It's chilly, but coming spring.

0:43.0

Germanicus is here, we're finishing our cup of wine.

0:46.0

We're going on to see, I believe, an act, just one act of Madea,

0:51.0

a favorite of many, because of course she takes revenge upon Jason and the Argonauts. However,

0:59.7

we're also speculating about what will happen to Roman Britain 2,000 years from now and in

1:07.2

conversation with someone living in the 21st century in Lincoln which was a Roman center of commerce contemporaneously with Londinium.

1:21.6

I learned that in the 21st century you are wise not to dig in your garden too

1:27.9

deep because the Roman mosaics are everywhere and if you unearth one of them, the architecture and

1:36.8

artifact and archaeologists all show up and you'll never have your garden to yourself

1:41.3

again. The Lincoln is completely dominated by the

1:46.2

Roman civilization about six to eight feet down. However it depends upon the

1:52.1

tourists coming to the cathedral, which is, you know, a thousand years

1:56.1

after Rome.

1:58.8

I also learned Germanicus that they don't even

2:05.0

don't even put it in the news anymore unless it's a really big swag.

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