What are some roman contributions to history?

Answer 1

many contibutions. In fact, the ancient Romans made so many contributions that they are almost impossible to list. But here are some of them: the done and concrete. Can you imagine a city without concrete? Their roads are famous and along their roads they had the first inns or motels. As the Romans were great travelers, they came up with the first travel agencies. Their legal concepts are the basis for much of our western law. They used central heating, invented the taxi meter, had indoor Plumbing, and perfected the art of the mosaic.

Answer 2

There were many contributions by the Romans to history. One of the main ones is language. The Romans spoke Latin, which is the basis of French, Spanish, Romanian, Portuguese, and Italian. Though English is not technically a Latin-based language, many of our words come from it, such as pound, wall, street, wine, Doncaster, tile and many more.

Answer 3

The list of Roman contributions of Roman civilisation to our present day is very long. I will only list a selection. The alphabet of all western European languages are adaptations of theLatinalphabet. Five languages, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Romanian are derived from Latin.In the English language there are many words of Latin origin. Our calendar is the calendar introduced by Julius Caesar (Juliancalendar) with some minor modifications introduced by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582 (Gregorian calendar). The names of the months are derived from the Roman names for them. Roman architecture andsculptureand Latin literature heavily influencedEuropeanarchitecture sculpture and literature from the 14th century to wellintothe 20th century and they are stillinfluential though to a lesser degree. Some of the key principles of modern law areinfluencedby the keyprinciplesof Roman civil law.Romancontributionsin the past were also the aqueduct, the paved roads and the sewers.

Answer 4

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 or words of Latin origin 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.

Answer 5

One of the most important things the Romans provided was a the legal frame work of Western Europe and therefore a good proportion of the rest of the world,