⚔️🏰: Client kings (Cogidubnus) under Rome’s military rule.
💀: Roman baths for public health; malaria in marshes.
📚: Tacitus’ Agricola critiques Roman imperialism.
🌱: Slave labor builds roads/towns; Celtic resistance (Boudicca).
👑: Boudicca (led revolt, 60 AD) & Julia Domna (Severan empress in York).
Key Site: Colchester (Boudicca’s destruction).
⚔️🏰: Alfred the Great vs. Vikings; Scottish kings (Kenneth MacAlpin).
💀: Justinian Plague (541–49) kills 25% of Europe.
📚: Beowulf (oral epic), Bede’s Ecclesiastical History.
🌱: Peasant revolts against Saxon taxes.
👑: Æthelflæd (Lady of the Mercians, built fortresses).
Key Site: Winchester (Alfred’s capital).