The main legacies of the Romans are religion, the alphabet, language, law and art.
Christianity developed from a religion among a small group of Jews (who lived in Judea, which was part of the Roman Empire) into a mass religion in the Roman days. It spread around the Roman Empire. It became state religion. Catholic Christianity and Orthodox Christianity developed during the Late Roman Empire. They were originally called Latin or Western Christianity and Greek or Eastern Christianity respectively. The former was the main form of Christianity in the western part of the Roman Empire and the latter was the main form of Christianity in the eastern part of the Roman Empire.
Western European languages have adopted and adapted the Latin alphabet. The only letters in the English language which do not come from the Latin alphabet are J, U and W.
Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Romanian are languages derived from Latin (romance languages). Many Latin words have entered English via two routes. One was that Latin was the language of the church in the Middle Ages. The other was the Norman conquest of England. French became the court language and many French words entered into the English language. These words are usually of Latin origin.
Many international words in medicine, law and theology are Latin.
The key principles of Roman civil law have provided the foundation or an inspiration for the law of many modern countries. These are: citizenship status and citizenship rights, equality under the law, the right to have a proper trial and to defend oneself, the right to appeal, that the burden of proof rests on the accuser and not on the accused, that it is the exact form of actions and not intentions or words which is punishable, and that a law deemed unreasonable or unfair can be repealed.
The Romans influenced European architecture, sculpture and painting until the early 20th century. They influenced the art of the Renaissance (14th-15th century) Baroque (17th-18th century) and Neoclassicism (18th-20th century, and is still sometimes used today). Palladian architecture was also based on Roman architecture. It was popular from the 17th century to the 20th century and was often used for public buildings. Latin literature was very influential in European literature until the mid-20th century.
The ideas of Christianity were seen by many as a threat to the Roman Empire. Some believe that is why Rome eventually embraced Christianity, as to influence it.
No one in the US adopted all of the political ideas of the Romans. The fathers were inspired by the Roman Republic, but did not adopt the ideas of this republic because this political system applied to an ancient society, which was totally different. They were strongly influenced by Montesquieu, am 18th century French philosopher , rather than the Roman political system.
The Roman Republic did not have much influence on later societies except for the Italian city-states of the High and Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance which referred to it as a model for the development of their systems of self-governance. The society of the last phase of Roman civilisation (the Later Empire) had more of an influence in the societies of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Athenian democracy did not have an influence util the development of democratic ideas in Modern Europe.
Yes, the exchange of ideas between Rome and other cultures came by travel. Romans went to Greece to study, Greeks came to Rome to teach and also to study. The ideas of Christianity spread all through the empire by means of someone traveling to teach them.
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How did changing ideas about what made up the Roman community help the Roman Empire survive
They got ideas from the Roman Republic and their own brains.
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The ideas of Christianity were seen by many as a threat to the Roman Empire. Some believe that is why Rome eventually embraced Christianity, as to influence it.
the military and government of Greece were the legacies roman's used. this is because when the Roman Empire was rapidly falling apart Greece's ideas were used and expanded
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No one in the US adopted all of the political ideas of the Romans. The fathers were inspired by the Roman Republic, but did not adopt the ideas of this republic because this political system applied to an ancient society, which was totally different. They were strongly influenced by Montesquieu, am 18th century French philosopher , rather than the Roman political system.
Romans were largely a military empire; they conquered and controlled - thus their ideas survived and thrived.
Rome's centralized government was replaced by the rule of many local kings and nobles.
The Greek Empire was before the Roman Empire and many people say that the Greeks are really advanced in things like math.
By the written word, by word of mouth and the first Christian Roman Emporer Constantine forcing it on his subjects.
The Roman Empire started as just another small faction in Ancient Italy. But they were different because they accepted everybody, from anywhere, into Roman lands to get a fresh start. This lead to many different ideas and influences in Rome