... have his conquests returned to the Parthians by Hadrian who decides that the Empire should not get any bigger and that it was at it's limit as it was. In the west however there were a couple of major and long lasting changes to the size of the empire. The first was of course, Britain, invaded by Claudius in 43AD after many failed attempts by other Caesars, most famous of these being Julius Caesar himself. Claudius' reason for invasion was To assist a client king who had been thrown out of his kingdom by an invading tribe, this client king's name was Verica. This was a poor idea on Claudius' part because this conquest never paid for itself, Britain was relatively resource free, and cost more to run than taxes got out of it. The Other western conquest was Dacia, however this was a much more drawn out and ...

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