Ancient Greece's influence has been in science, geometry, philosophy, literature and art.
The main legacies of the Romans are religion, the alphabet, language, the calendar, 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 calendar we use is called the Gregorian calendar. It is essentially the calendar introduced by Julius Caesar (the Julian calendar) with some minor modifications introduced by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582. The names of the months we use are the names of the months of the Julian calendar.
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form of actions and not intentions or words which is punishable, and that a law deemed unreasonable or unfair can be repealed.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.
Three of the many important developments om Greece and Rome that influenced western civilization were the concept of democracy, the republic form of government and the Christian movement.
The Greco-Roman civilization is important to our civilization because it is the basis for our western thinking, ideals, and laws.
It strongly shaped the western civilization
Qualities of individualism, humanism as well as democracy and our own current legal and political systems can trace their roots back to the ancient Greeks. In addition, their contributions to science, philosophy, art, architecture and literature influenced the Roman Empire and all of western civilization.
Yeats prophecy for modern civilization is that Western civilization will enter a period of decline. The prophecy comes from the poem The Second Coming.
Herodotus wrote the history of the Persian wars, a work commonly regarded as the first real history in Western civilization.
yes!!! Please Help!!!!!There are many more than three developments from the Greco-Roman civilization that has influenced western civilization, but three developments are the idea of democracy, a republic with civil rights and Christianity.
Was our western influenced by the wise Greeks ?
everything was perfect.that's how it influenced western civilization cuz we want everything to be perfect as well.
everything was perfect.that's how it influenced western civilization cuz we want everything to be perfect as well.
Carl B. Troedsson has written: 'Architecture, urbanism, and socio-political developments in our Western civilization' -- subject(s): Architecture, Cities and towns, Civilization, Western, History, Western Civilization
The Greco-Roman civilization is important to our civilization because it is the basis for our western thinking, ideals, and laws.
The enlightenment is the basis of Western Civilization.So wherever is considered or influenced by Western Civilization.
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Renaissance, Protestant Reformation, absolute monarchy, Enlightenment
The Rome civilization is American's most influenced government. This is in the Western part of the world.
Greek, we were the creators of western civilization. But Chinese is not far behind. They might have influenced eastern civilization.
the introduction of monotheism,and judeo-christian values.