Roman Britain ( or, later, "", "the Britains") was the area of the island of Great Britain that was governed by the Roman Empire, from 43 to 410AD.

Julius Caesar invaded Britain in 55 and 54BC as part of his Gallic Wars. The Britons had been overrun or culturally assimilated by other Celtic tribes during the British Iron Age and had been aiding Caesar's enemies. He received tribute, installed a friendly king over the Trinovantes, and returned to Gaul. Planned invasions under Augustus were called off in 34, 27, and 25BC. In 40AD, Caligula assembled 200,000 men at the Channel, only to have them gather seashells. Three years later, Claudius directed four legions to invade Britain and restore an exiled king over the Atrebates. The Romans defeated the Catuvellauni, and then organized their conquests as the Province of Britain (). By the year 47, the Romans held the lands southeast of the Fosse Way. Control over Wales was delayed by reverses and the effects of Boudica's uprising, but the Romans expanded steadily northward.

Under the 2nd century emperors Hadrian and Antoninus Pius, two walls were built to defend the Roman province from the Caledonians, whose realms in the Scottish Highlands were never directly controlled. Around 197, the Severan Reforms divided Britain into two provinces: Britannia Superior and Britannia Inferior. During the Diocletian Reforms, at the end of the 3rd century, Britannia was divided into four provinces under the direction of a vicarius, who administered the . A fifth province, Valentia, is attested in the later 4th century. For much of the later period of the Roman occupation, Britannia was subject to barbarian invasions and often came under the control of imperial usurpers and imperial pretenders. The final Roman withdrawal from Britain occurred around 410; the native kingdoms are considered to have formed Sub-Roman Britain after that. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What did Caesar invade?
2. when?
3. In what war?
4. Did he receive tribute?
5. Who else planned invasions?
6. Anyone else?
7. When did Augustus plan to invade?
8. What were the people there called?
9. When did Caligula try to invade?
10. Cladius?
11. Did the Romans defeat the Catuvellauni?
12. What did they do next?
13. How many walls were built?
14. Under who?
15. When?
16. To keep who out?
17. When was the Severan Reforms?
18. When were the Diocletian Reforms?
19. How many provinces did it make?
20. When did the Roman force withdraw?
Answer: 1. Britain
2. 55 and 54 BV
3. Gallic Wars
4. yes
5. ICaligula
6. Claudius
7. 34,27 and 25 BC
8. Catuvellauni
9. .40 AD
10. 37 AD
11. yes
12. organized the conquests as Province of Britain
13. Two
14. Hadrian and Antoninus Pius
15. 2nd century
16. the Caledonians
17. 197
18. third century
19. two
20. 410

Problem: CHAPTER II--A JACOBITE WAIF

'Sac now he's o'er the floods sae gray, And Lord Maxwell has ta'en his good-night.'

LORD MAXWELL'S _Good-night_.

Madame La Comtesse de Bourke was by no means a helpless fine lady. She had several times accompanied her husband on his expeditions, and had only not gone with him to Madrid because he did not expect to be long absent, and she sorely rued the separation.

She was very busy in her own room, superintending the packing, and assisting in it, when her own clever fingers were more effective than those of her maids. She was in her _robe de chambre_, a dark blue wrapper, embroidered with white, and put on more neatly than was always the case with French ladies in _deshabille_. The hoop, long stiff stays, rich brocade robe, and fabric of powdered hair were equally unsuitable to ease or exertion, and consequently were seldom assumed till late in the day, when the toilette was often made in public.

So Madame de Bourke's hair was simply rolled out of her way, and she appeared in her true colours, as a little brisk, bonny woman, with no actual beauty, but very expressive light gray eyes, furnished with intensely long black lashes, and a sweet, mobile, lively countenance.

Estelle was trying to amuse little Jacques, and prevent him from trotting between the boxes, putting all sorts of undesirable goods into them; and Ulysse had collected his toys, and was pleading earnestly that a headless wooden horse and a kite, twice as tall as himself, of Lanty's manufacture, might go with them.
1. Who had Madame La comtesse de Bourke accompany on their missions?
2. What was she busy doing?
3. Was she considered a helpless lady?
4. What is it that Estelle was attempting to do?
5. and stopping him from doing what?
6. Who would Madame La comtesse de Bourked help with packing when they were having trouble?
7. Where was her husband at currently that she didn't go becuase he wasn't expected to have an long absence?
8. What was she considered unsuitable to ease or exertion?
9. What had Ulysses gathered?
10. Which ones was he begging to take with them?
11. What color were Madame de Bourke's eyes?
12. What was the manufacture/brand of the kite of Ulysse's?
Answer: 1. Her husband.
2. Superintending the packing.
3. No.
4. Trying to amuse little Jacques.
5. Trotting between the boxes.
6. Her maids.
7. Madrid.
8. Fabric of powdered hair.
9. His toys,
10. A headless wooden horse.
11. Light gray.
12. Lanty.

question: CHAPTER LVIII. "Fairoaks to let"

Our poor widow (with the assistance of her faithful Martha of Fairoaks, who laughed and wondered at the German ways, and superintend the affairs of the simple household) had made a little feast in honour of Major Pendennis's arrival, of which, however, only the Major and his two younger friends partook, for Helen sent to say that she was too unwell to dine at their table, and Laura bore her company. The Major talked for the party, and did not perceive, or choose to perceive, what a gloom and silence pervaded the other two sharers of the modest dinner. It was evening before Helen and Laura came into the sitting-room to join the company there. She came in leaning on Laura, with her back to the waning light, so that Arthur could not see how pallid and woe-stricken her face was, and as she went up to Pen, whom she had not seen during the day, and placed her fond arms on his shoulders and kissed him tenderly, Laura left her, and moved away to another part of the room. Pen remarked that his mother's voice and her whole frame trembled, her hand was clammy cold as she put it up to his forehead, piteously embracing him. The spectacle of her misery only added, somehow, to the wrath and testiness of the young man. He scarcely returned the kiss which the suffering lady gave him: and the countenance with which he met the appeal of her look was hard and cruel. "She persecutes me," he thought within himself, "and she comes to me with the air of a martyr!" "You look very ill, my child," she said. "I don't like to see you look in that way." And she tottered to a sofa, still holding one of his passive hands in her thin cold clinging fingers.
1. Who made the feast?
2. Who attended?
3. When time of day did the other ladies arrive?
4. Who was looking pale?
5. Who did she plant her lips on?
6. Where did she touch him?
7. What did he tell her?
8. Who did she think looked sick?
9. What did they walk towards?
10. Who assisted in making the meal?
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answer:
1. Our poor widow
2. the Major and his two younger friends
3. evening
4. Helen
5. Pen
6. his shoulders
7. that his mother's voice and her whole frame trembled
8. Pen
9. a sofa
10. Martha of Fairoaks