From the very first, however, Anglo-Saxon or Old English was subjected to outside influences. Even before the Angles and Saxons came to Britain, they had come in contact with Roman civilization. For a time large parts of Germany were under Roman Domination, and from the Roman soldiers and the inevitable traders who traveled in their wake, the languages of the Teutonic tribes received a large number of Latin words. These words generally indicate the new products and concepts which were acquired from contact with a higher civilization. Thus, when they arrived in England, the Anglo-Saxons already had borrowed such words as straet (from Latin via strata, “paved road”), which became street in modern English. Likewise, for example, came the words ciese (cheese), win (wine), cuppe(cup), and pund (pound).