[00:00.379]If there were sumptuous country villas amidst the olive groves of the Roman countryside.
[00:05.702]Why could there not be equally sumptuous country villas amidst the pear orchards of the South Downs?
[00:12.454]Just fall in line, be a little reasonable, some judicious supports here and there,
[00:19.454]and see what you would end up with the spectacular palace at Fishbourne.
[00:31.309]The man who built it was Togidubnus, king of the Regnenses in what would be Sussex
[00:36.546]one of the quickest to sign up as Rome's local ally.
[00:40.948]He was rewarded，with enough wealth to build himself something fit for a Roman.
[00:46.077]Only the extraordinary mosaic floors survive
[00:49.130]but the place was as big as four football pitches.
[00:52.163]Grand enough for someone who now gloried in the name of Tiberius Claudius Cogidumnus.
[01:00.162]He couldn't have been the only British chief to realise on which side his bread was buttered.
[01:05.535]All over Britain, there were rulers
[01:07.005]who thought a Roman connection would do more good than harm in their pursuit of local power and status.
[01:16.283]The person we usually think of as embodying British national resistance to Rome,
[01:20.801]Queen Boudicca of the East Anglian tribe of the Iceni.
[01:23.602]Actually came from a family of happy, even eager collaborators.
[01:28.383]It only took a policy of incredible stupidity, arrogance and brutality
[01:33.383]on the part of the local Roman governor to turn her from a warm supporter of Rome into its most dangerous enemy.