A2 Roman Britain

Yeah it's OCR, and well we have a spec, but what we seem to be doing is not as in depth as the spec shows, we just slightly touch on each topic, and we lose a lot of lessons through unforeseen circumstances. I'd just like to know the depth and to know how I could go about learning it in deeper context. Also to create some sort of structure, as my notes, what notes I have are all over the place.

I have the same problem. I think that generally the emphasis of the course is the extent to which the Romans changed Britain- 'Romanised' it, and whether this was a good or bad thing.
I love making tables, so if you wanted to draw up a massive table (or use excel) it might be helpful if you had columns down the side with the headings: Villas, government & admin, army, town, religion, roads, economy, art (the things on the spec)
With rows you could have: Evidence in favour of 'romanisation', evidence against, and then successes and failures.
So for example, with government:

Evidence in favour of 'romanisation': - Established a procurator and governor in the province. Britain did not have these pre-conquest.

Evidence against: The fact that many systems were based on pre-existing social structures

(so this would be answering the question of whether or not this particular element was 'romanised' although there's more detail and other evidence to be used)

Successes: - Creating client kingdoms were less of a strain on finance and resources on the Roman's behalf and it allowed the locals to have some sense of autonomy.

Failures: - Boudiccan revolt. Shows how sometimes the gov & admin was unsuccessful and there was civil unrest.

I think all the information needed to fill in such a table is found in the two set texts: Salway and Hill & Ireland.
This website also has great pages about specific topics http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Great_Britain/_Periods/Roman/_Texts/WARREB/home.html

Hope this is helpful.

You are some sort of god

This is utterly fantastic and pure gold.

Highly appreciated. And much love!

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Yeah I have been

Was a great call that! Really got revision and understanding going.

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Thank you!!

Ah I thought the exam was a beauty. Religion and economy. Couldn't have asked for any more

Hope it was all good for you and you liked it as much as me :')

I feel exactly the same! Really nice questions. Hope unfit two goes well, which topic are you doing?


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Our second exam is Virgil and the world of heroes. The Aenead I know like the back of my hand, the Iliad though haha do not like that book at all.

Well good luck to you! I did the Odyssey as one of my units last year but other than that I don't know a lot about epic.
My second unit is Ancient Comic Drama. I cannot wait for this Thursday to be over, it's my last exam and my birthday is the day after!

Could anyone help me with this?

Sure I can give you a hand, it has been a while since I did this A level and I now live In Sri Lanka... but anyway, what is it you need help with and I will see what help I can provide

Well good luck to you! I did the Odyssey as one of my units last year but other than that I don't know a lot about epic.
My second unit is Ancient Comic Drama. I cannot wait for this Thursday to be over, it's my last exam and my birthday is the day after!