Weather That Changed the World

Lost Legions of Rome (1x7)

: 21, 2013

In the year 9AD three legions of the highly trained and well-armed Roman troops were slaughtered in the Teutoburg Forest, North East Germany. Their enemy, treachery from within and a rough coalition of Germanic tribesmen who’s knowledge of the landscape and the weather that dominates it enabled them to throw off the threat of being engulfed by the empire. More importantly, this humiliating defeat led to the abandonment of all Roman expansion into Germania Magna.