Why did britain remain an attractive target for Roman expantion?

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The Roman Expansion Britain

By 43 AD , the era of the most important Roman attack of Britain , Britain had already recurrently been the target of attack , intended and definite , by forces of the Roman Republic and Roman Empire . In general with other regions on the circumference of the empire , Britain had long benefited from operating links with the Romans and their economic and cultural supremacy was an important element of the British late pre-Roman Iron Age , particularly in the south

p The new Roman supremacy which started to take over the western world in the first and second centuries B .C . was in numerous points a dissimilar thing from any of the great empires that had up till now triumphed in the civilized world . It was not originally a kingdom , and it was not the conception of any one great conqueror . It was not certainly the first of republican empires Athens had conquered a group of Allies and reliants in the time of Pericles and Carthage when she entered upon her grave struggle with Rome was mistress of Sardinia and Corsica , Morocco Algiers , Tunis , and most of Spain and Sicily . But it was the first republican empire that fled destruction and went on to fresh growths

The Roman supremacy spread to Morocco and Spain , and was now capable to drive north-westward over what is at the present France and Belgium to Britain and north-eastward into Hungary and South Russia . But conversely it was not at all able to uphold itself in Central Asia or Persia as they were too far-off from its administrative centers

The Roman Empire was an expansion , an unexpected original expansion the Roman people found themselves occupied just about not ready in an immense administrative try out . It cannot be called a thriving experiment . Eventually their empire distorted all in all . And it altered extremely in structure and method from century to century . It altered more in a hundred years than Bengal or Mesopotamia or Egypt altered in a thousand . It was always shifting . It never achieved to any fixity . In logic the trial botched . In a sense the trial stayed in progress , and Europe and America at present are still estimating the puzzles of universal statecraft first tackled by the Roman people . It is well for the students of history to remember the very vast changes not only in political but in social and ethical matters that went on all through the period of Roman authority . There is much too strong a propensity in people 's brains to think of the Roman ruling as somewhat finished and steady , rigid , rounded , noble and important . Macaulay 's Lays of Ancient Rome , S .P .Q .R . the elder Cato , the Scipios , Julius Czhsar , Diocletian Constantine the Great , victories , speeches , gladiatorial battles and Christian sacrifices are all caught up together in a picture of rather high and cruel and dignified . The items of that picture have to be unraveled . They are composed...