BOADICEA WORKSHEET
BOADICEA WORKSHEET
1. How did happen that Boadicea became the queen of the Iceni tribe ? Because of her husband
death, se got the tribe
2. Compare the Roman and the Iceni women. In Rome women dress in white linen, wash their
hair with soap and dress it in elaborate patterns and thread it witd ribbons and shrick at the
sight of a spider. Iceni womens are very angry, they mark their bodies with woad, their
warriors wouldn't step into steam bath, in their opinion they are not savages.
3. What are Boadicea's motives for going into the battle? She wants vengeance for Romans,
because they killed her husband and come straight to her village, flog her and rape her
daughters and she also ta figting for her lost freedom and robbed home.
4. Wht does she lose battle? They lose the battle because they had a better statecy and they
were stronger than the Iceni. Romans had also a lot of dicipline a...