The ever-joyful Adam Hart-Davis visits Hadrian’s Wall and demonstrates how communications were the key to the success of the Roman military machine. Communication along and to and from the wall; the soldiers’ diet; auxiliaries from distant lands; metal-working; writing; semaphore; water-clocks and codes.
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Find the film by searching YouTube’s Tangwaap channel for “What the Romans Did For Us 5: Edge of Empire”. The film is also available on BBC iPlayer (Oct 2024).
14 questions for the 22-min film. Differentiated THREE ways! All versions look similar, but “B” version has subtle clues, and “C” version requires pupils to cross out wrong answers, not write in correct ones. Answer sheet. Very easy to mark. .doc and .pdf of all sheets, link to film on all sheets.
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