The return of the Romans

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Q1: What was different between the invasion of Caesar and the invasion of Claudius?

[Answer]

Caesar only stayed in Britain long enough to get the tribes to agree to pay him a yearly tax called a tribute. He then took his army back to Europe.

It was important for an emperor to show that he could add to the empire. When Claudius became emperor a century after Caesar, he chose Britain as his conquest. So he gathered 40,000 soldiers – enough to control the country, for Claudius had decided that this time the Romans would stay.