You have your history a little mixed up. Greece never conquered Rome. Rome conquered Greece. However the Romans were influenced by Greek ideas although they always adapted them to their Roman culture. A prime example of this is in the Roman Republic which was loosely based upon the Greek system of voting. The Romans liked the idea of citizens selecting their rulers, but not the way it was done in Athens, so they formulated their own system of voting.
You have your history a little mixed up. Greece never conquered Rome. Rome conquered Greece. However the Romans were influenced by Greek ideas although they always adapted them to their Roman culture. A prime example of this is in the Roman republic which was loosely based upon the Greek system of voting. The Romans liked the idea of citizens selecting their rulers, but not the way it was done in Athens, so they formulated their own system of voting.
You have your history a little mixed up. Greece never conquered Rome. Rome conquered Greece. However the Romans were influenced by Greek ideas although they always adapted them to their Roman culture. A prime example of this is in the Roman republic which was loosely based upon the Greek system of voting. The Romans liked the idea of citizens selecting their rulers, but not the way it was done in Athens, so they formulated their own system of voting.
You have your history a little mixed up. Greece never conquered Rome. Rome conquered Greece. However the Romans were influenced by Greek ideas although they always adapted them to their Roman culture. A prime example of this is in the Roman republic which was loosely based upon the Greek system of voting. The Romans liked the idea of citizens selecting their rulers, but not the way it was done in Athens, so they formulated their own system of voting.
You have your history a little mixed up. Greece never conquered Rome. Rome conquered Greece. However the Romans were influenced by Greek ideas although they always adapted them to their Roman culture. A prime example of this is in the Roman republic which was loosely based upon the Greek system of voting. The Romans liked the idea of citizens selecting their rulers, but not the way it was done in Athens, so they formulated their own system of voting.
You have your history a little mixed up. Greece never conquered Rome. Rome conquered Greece. However the Romans were influenced by Greek ideas although they always adapted them to their Roman culture. A prime example of this is in the Roman republic which was loosely based upon the Greek system of voting. The Romans liked the idea of citizens selecting their rulers, but not the way it was done in Athens, so they formulated their own system of voting.
You have your history a little mixed up. Greece never conquered Rome. Rome conquered Greece. However the Romans were influenced by Greek ideas although they always adapted them to their Roman culture. A prime example of this is in the Roman republic which was loosely based upon the Greek system of voting. The Romans liked the idea of citizens selecting their rulers, but not the way it was done in Athens, so they formulated their own system of voting.
You have your history a little mixed up. Greece never conquered Rome. Rome conquered Greece. However the Romans were influenced by Greek ideas although they always adapted them to their Roman culture. A prime example of this is in the Roman republic which was loosely based upon the Greek system of voting. The Romans liked the idea of citizens selecting their rulers, but not the way it was done in Athens, so they formulated their own system of voting.
You have your history a little mixed up. Greece never conquered Rome. Rome conquered Greece. However the Romans were influenced by Greek ideas although they always adapted them to their Roman culture. A prime example of this is in the Roman republic which was loosely based upon the Greek system of voting. The Romans liked the idea of citizens selecting their rulers, but not the way it was done in Athens, so they formulated their own system of voting.
You have your history a little mixed up. Greece never conquered Rome. Rome conquered Greece. However the Romans were influenced by Greek ideas although they always adapted them to their Roman culture. A prime example of this is in the Roman republic which was loosely based upon the Greek system of voting. The Romans liked the idea of citizens selecting their rulers, but not the way it was done in Athens, so they formulated their own system of voting.
they were great learners and the Greeks were great teachers.
Rome annexed mainland Greece in 146 BC
No, it was the other way around. The Romans conquered the Greeks.
They were conquered by the Romans at around 133 BC.
The Romans found that they had the same deities only named differently. There was really no adaption necessary, except that the Romans used Roman names for the gods instead of the Greek names.
Were the Romans from Greece? No, they were from Rome, which is a city of Italy. Hence, Romans rather than Greeks.
The Romans conquered Greece in the Polyponesian wars
Rome annexed mainland Greece in 146 BC
No, it was the other way around. The Romans conquered the Greeks.
Greeks to a small extent. The Jews were another major group to resist Roman culture.
The Romans named the Greeks in Greece.
To expand their empire.
it was not the Geography of Greece which influenced western civilisation. It was Greek civilisation and the fact that the Greeks migrated out of Greece. They migrated to western Turkey, southern Italy and Sicily and they founded Marseilles in southern France. Thus, they created a Greek world which extended beyond mainland Greece. The Greeks influenced the peoples who lived near then. They also influenced the Romans. It is though this influence of the Romans that the Greeks later influenced western civilisation.
Greeks
The Romans progressively absorbed the Greek world into the Roman Empire.
They were conquered by the Romans at around 133 BC.
It was Greek culture. Greek civilisation started earlier than that of the Italics (peoples of ancient Italy) and, being more advanced, it exerted a great influence on them when Greek colonies were established in Italy. Moreover, Alexander the Great's conquest of the Middle East, Central Asia and Egypt, the Greeks deeply influenced these areas, too, creating what has been called the Hellenistic cultural period. The Romans' conquest of Greece and the Middle East, took over the Hellenistic world. Greek influence deepened further. This created a post-Hellenistic period where, as Horace put it, 'conquered Greece has conquered the brute victor and brought her arts into rustic Latium.' Roman art and literature followed Greek models. The Roman elite spoke and wrote in Greek.
Greek of course. the Romans conquered the Greeks, forcing to share land with them.