Long-term impact
Even though the short-term impact of the rebellion was major damage to the Roman empire, the Boudiccan rebellion is what made it grow stronger. The long-term impact of the rebellion was crushing any ideas of rebellion or resistance, people being scared of the Empire helped to make it all the more powerful. There were people from the battle who were able to help change things in Rome for the better because they knew what had caused the problem in the first place.
"The revolt managed to destroy these major Roman British cities because, firstly, the majority of the forces stationed in Britain were occupied elsewhere when the rebellion began14, and secondly, because the cities lacked defensive walls.15 The rebellion was brought to a close by the intervention of the governer Suetonius Paulinus. The damage wrought by the Britons was of significant magnitude, but it wasn't a turning point as the effects were short-term, arguably having no effect on Roman British affairs after the late 60s. |
"As the Roman governor of Gaul, Julius Caesar first sought to conquer Britain in 55B.C.E; Roman emperor Claudius 1 launched a second invasion nearly 100years later. In 70 C.E Emperor Vespasian sent Gnaeus Julius Agricola to command one of the original four lergions Claudius had sent to subdue Britain, and not long afterward Vespasian made Agricola governor. Agricola was brown in Narbonne Gaul (today's South of rance) in 40 C.E. He knew Britain; he had served under Gaius Suetonius Paulinus, whose second legion quashed the Iceni warrior queen Boudica's revolt against Rome." |