[Chicagoan]

http://atlasofworldhistory.com

For us nerds, this is cool software. A high school history teacher programmed the whole thing during his spare time. Watch empires rise and fall. It seems pretty acurate except the Romans conquered Britain in about 50 AD and they never conquered Scotland.

[Guest]

Gnaeus Julius Agricola, the Roman governor of Britain from AD 77 to 84, was the first Roman general to operate extensively in Scotland. He defeated the natives at Mons Graupius, possibly in Banffshire, probably in AD 84. In the following year he was recalled, and his policy of containing the hostile tribes within the Highland zone, which he had marked by building a legionary fortress at Inchtuthil in Strathmore, was not continued. His tactics were logical, if Scotland was to be subdued, but probably required the commitment of more troops than the overall strategy of the Roman Empire could afford. The only other period in which a forward policy was attempted was between about 144 and about 190, when a turf wall, the Antonine Wall (named after the emperor Antoninus Pius), was manned between the Forth and the Clyde.

[MaxZorn]

nice! was looking for something like that. thanks.

[duff_beer_dragon]

Yeah but is it an accurate representation that shows the animation as if upon a globe, cause you know you can't use a map, that means you believe the Earth is flat......

As a Scots-Italian, I'd say what probably drove off the Romans was the weather here. Today for example it is Siberian-cold.

Here's a funny fact - Scotland's UFO flap area, Bonnybridge, has an old Roman Fort built there.