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EXT5-OLD ENGLAND AND THE ROMANS

  BY Pragyansharma  Polavarapu

 

 In the  Mediterranean region, perhaps in the region of about  1600 BC(about 3600 years from now) a glorious ancient Greek civilization existed. later an equally glorious  Roman civilization was born and a great Roman empire existed  upholding  the majestic Greco-Roman culture. In those  times  Celts and after them Anglo-Saxons lived a rural agriculture and fishing based life in contrast to  the urban oriented aristocratic and military oriented civilization of Romans.  The Roman empire was frequently involved in wars with  Asian empires  .

The Romans were a most sophisticated urban oriented society with aristocratic warrior families dominating the military and ruling classes. They followed the  beautiful  older Greek philosophy. They  were in some respects harsh and maintained  slaves. They  maintained trained armies with tough iron war weapons , used horse drawn  war chariots . They had powerful legal codes, administration codes and established democratic institutions.

Let us learn a little more about the ancient Romans. The Roman social structure and civilization  were born about 800 BC.  The ancient Greeks and Roman civilizations, philosophies and literatures  are now treated by Europeans as treasures. Roman emperors accepted the wonderful message of Lord Jesus Christ   three  hundred years after birth of Lord Jesus  .  The noble message of love and uplifting the poor and possessing the noble quality of forgiveness—the philosophy  brought a wonderful change even among the harsh mannered Roman rulers .

Even while He was  about to be crucified  Lord Jesus Christ , pointing to the cruel  Roman  commander,  saying that he did not  know what he was doing asked god almighty  to forgive him (the cruel roman commander) These words of Lord Jesus brought out the inner nobility hiding in every person  .

The emperor and then all population accepted the electrifying noble message of Lord Jesus Christ. About 300 years later Emperor Constantine awed by the power of fast spreading message of love of Lord Jesus among the common people, fully   encouraged spread of Christianity  in all the country.Finally 70  years later emperor Theodosius gave imperial orders that Christianity would be the state religion.

Christianity brought a wonderful change in lives of both Celts and Anglo-Saxons also. It brought a  high moral discipline and spiritual joy and jave a new aim to life . We may know that while the words “Britain” and “British” come from a Celtic group  called Britons,the  word “English” comes from the Anglo-Saxons .The place names Essex, Wessex, Sussex  indicate that they  were once associared  mainly with the Saxons.

 

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