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Boudica's Revolt Boudicas Revolt in AD 60 was perfectly justifiable. Britain was invaded by the Romans in AD 43 under control of emperor Claudius. The Icenis at this time were under control form King Antedious. The Icenian kingdom made a treaty with the Romans making the Iceni a Client Kingdom. A client kingdom is a kingdom under control of the Romans. The king of this kingdom remained in throne but the king had to answer to the Romans. This meant that the king had certain freedom but in the end had to listen to what Rome said. The Iceni controlled all trade routes into the wash. The Romans needed to have use of these sea routes for trading and shipments. The Romans used the Iceni towns to house their soldiers when preparing to secure the south coast routes into Britain. The Romans didn't like leaving troops near newly conquered colonies because it was a waste of their resources. It was much more effective to waste the Icenian resources even though it annoyed the Iceni. The Iceni were situated in the southeast of Britain and had borders with the Catuvellauni and the Trinovantes (See map above.) Both the Cativenllani and the Trinovantes traded with the Romans even before the Roman invasion. The Iceni tribe however refused to play any part in this. Later when they were forced to trade with the Romans it was a massive change for all of them. This is arguably one of the more major for the Iceni revolting. Evidence gathered from the Roman pottery backs this idea up. All over Britain Roman wine jugs (amphora) have been found. Very few of these jugs have been found where the Iceni used to be situated compared with other places such as South Britain. This shows that the rest of Britain traded with the Roman Empire whereas the Iceni had remained very isolated from Roman Culture and therefore were in for a shock later The Iceni managed to live in peace with the Roman Empire until 47AD when the first battle between The Roman Empire and the Iceni took place. The Dispute was over weapons P.Ostoirus Scapula who was the governor at the time had decided to disarm the Iceni tribe to tighten his grip and increase the control of the Roman Empire over Britain. This must have made the Iceni feel even more dependent on Rome than they already were. Paul Sealey stated that the Iceni people did not like this as the weapons had played a major part in the role of their religion. This made them angry and caused the small revolution in 47AD against the roman army.
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