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Camels in Roman Britain?
- JPLeRouzic 9y agoCamels or Dromedaries had a strong advantage over other animals like horses: They did not need roads in good shape, nor fields where to eat. It is important because at that time, creating and maintaining a road and relays was really costly for states, and states at the same time, needed to tax businesses which could not exist without roads (or ports/boats).
- lostboys67 9y agoThe Romans where known for building roads :-)
- robin_reala 9y agoLots of them in Britain still exist (in modern form): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_roads_in_Britannia#List_of_Roman_Roads_and_modern_numberings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_roads_in_Britannia#List_...
- toyg 9y agoall over Western Europe, in fact.
- pjc50 9y agoPretty sure that camels need to eat something at some point.
- baybal2 9y agoFew people know, but it was as recent as in nineteen-forties, when camels were kept and bred in Siberia as far north as latitude 60
- oeuviz 9y ago> deserves a dromed-ic revision. dromed-ic... really? sigh