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<blockquote data-quote="Enkhidu" data-source="post: 966179" data-attributes="member: 351"><p>OK, let's look at Britain!</p><p></p><p>Believe it or not, even with the Isles being so far away from Rome, IRL the Roman empire had a huge impact on British culture during the dark ages. In fact, some argue that certain parts of the Isles didn't have a Dark Age due to certain things being brought from the hub of civilization (I'm thinking of Ireland here, which by the 600s IRL were becoming heavily Christian due to St Patrick - plus the Irish were able to maintain many of their egalitarian ideals while still benefitting from Roman trade in southern Britain). </p><p></p><p>But, in this alternate future, where Rome is simply a city state and not an Empire, there is no such thing as the Romanized Briton. That means several things - for one, no King Arthur. For another, no infrastructure (roads, the baths at Bath, Hadrian's wall, etc). It also means that - with no unified resistance to the Angles and the Saxons that migrate over (I think this is independent from goings on further South, as it happened several times over the course of history, ending with the Vikings) - that Britain more quickly become subsumed by the Saxon culture. What I would do to simlulate this would be to take a look at a few writings about life in Saxon Britain circa 900 or 1000. That should give you a good idea.</p><p></p><p>By the way, it's also likely that Northern England would be more Scot than Saxon, and that the Irish would still be ruled by Druids and Bards (in fact, the Bards would be possibly the most powerful individuals in Ireland - their curses carried weight).</p><p></p><p>Give me a topic, I'll run with it...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Enkhidu, post: 966179, member: 351"] OK, let's look at Britain! Believe it or not, even with the Isles being so far away from Rome, IRL the Roman empire had a huge impact on British culture during the dark ages. In fact, some argue that certain parts of the Isles didn't have a Dark Age due to certain things being brought from the hub of civilization (I'm thinking of Ireland here, which by the 600s IRL were becoming heavily Christian due to St Patrick - plus the Irish were able to maintain many of their egalitarian ideals while still benefitting from Roman trade in southern Britain). But, in this alternate future, where Rome is simply a city state and not an Empire, there is no such thing as the Romanized Briton. That means several things - for one, no King Arthur. For another, no infrastructure (roads, the baths at Bath, Hadrian's wall, etc). It also means that - with no unified resistance to the Angles and the Saxons that migrate over (I think this is independent from goings on further South, as it happened several times over the course of history, ending with the Vikings) - that Britain more quickly become subsumed by the Saxon culture. What I would do to simlulate this would be to take a look at a few writings about life in Saxon Britain circa 900 or 1000. That should give you a good idea. By the way, it's also likely that Northern England would be more Scot than Saxon, and that the Irish would still be ruled by Druids and Bards (in fact, the Bards would be possibly the most powerful individuals in Ireland - their curses carried weight). Give me a topic, I'll run with it... [/QUOTE]
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