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- The first in a series of four programmes in which basic questions about the past arc given some sort of answer as a result of recent research. Learn Latin - Get on in Life
The outcome of any battle between the disciplined. well-equipped and highly. trained Roman soldiery and a disorganised tribe of panic-stricken peasants was predictable. But having won their battles. how did the Latin-speaking Romans communicate with the tribes of Gaul and Britain to get a bureaucratic organisation established, and create a common Roman-based society that was to run reasonably efficiently for
. several hundred years?
Presenter Brian Gear Producer ROY HAYWARD
BBC Bristol: long wave only

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