Industrial Activities in Britannia
As the Roman Empire expanded throughout Europe,it brought profound changes to newly conquered lands.One of the later territories to be absorbed as a province was Britain,in the first century A.D.There,with the arrival of the Roman army and its- relatively speaking-very rapid advance north,a number of new,or at least improved,technologies were introduced.Although ceramics had been made in Britain for several millennia,new kiln (furnace) technology allowed far-better-quality vessels to be made. Furthermore,Iron Age Britain had developed a specialized and highly artistic metalworking industry;with Roman technologies came the ability to mass-produce items.Consequently,while Iron Age communities had mastered many crafts and industries,what the Empire brought was the apparatus and the will to exploit these activities,with the initial impetus coming from the army.
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