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Hadrian's Wall: The Roman Empire

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Hadrian's Wall marked the territory of the Roman Empire. It was a statement by the Romans saying that we inside this wall are civilized and you outside are filthy barbarians. Hadrian's Wall also acted as a customs post, so that people going in and out of the empire could be taxed and monitored. The scale of Hadrian's Wall was designed to intimidate, in order to discourage and small scale uprisings that may have occurred, by showing the barbarians how advanced the Romans were by being able to build a twenty five foot indestructible wall. Hadrian wanted to be remembered by everyone from building the most powerful wall ever to stand earth, he felt like if they didn’t remember him for this than he wouldn’t be remembered at all. The wall divided
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