12-28-2013, 04:01 PM
The real main problem with Britain is its strategic position and I suspect that the 'internal' areas of 'England' were as Romanised/pacified as almost anywhere else.
All that coastline to defend against anyone who could sail to it, be they from Ireland, Scotland, Scandanavia, Denmark, etc.
Elsewhere the Romans pretty much had pacified all the Mediterranean shores and had borders on the Atlantic, the desert and the Rhine-Danube all the way over to the Black Sea. It's that land border across the rivers that eventually became the main issue from migration (some of it forced, of course).
If I was to plump for longest war I'd probably suggest (from a cultural perspective) the Parthians née Sassanids for the continual pressure from the East.
All that coastline to defend against anyone who could sail to it, be they from Ireland, Scotland, Scandanavia, Denmark, etc.
Elsewhere the Romans pretty much had pacified all the Mediterranean shores and had borders on the Atlantic, the desert and the Rhine-Danube all the way over to the Black Sea. It's that land border across the rivers that eventually became the main issue from migration (some of it forced, of course).
If I was to plump for longest war I'd probably suggest (from a cultural perspective) the Parthians née Sassanids for the continual pressure from the East.
