Why were the Romans more successful than the Greeks?

Answer 1

The Romans had the advantage over much of Europe that they had a milder climate. They also had trade with other Mediterranean countries, so they were quite wealthy.

The Romans were brilliant artists and were one of the most advanced societies in the world during their empire days.

Their armies were capable of taking down almost any opponent. The standard weapons of a Roman soldier were a gladius and a pilum. A gladius was a short sword that was lighter and easier to manouevre than their opponents' bigger swords. A pilum was a type of spear that was brilliantly crafted so that a Roman soldier could stab it through the shield of an enemy, but the enemy could keep pulling on his shield while the Roman held onto the pilum, and the pilum couldn't be pulled out by him. The enemy soldier would then typically toss his shield down, which allowed the Roman to finish him off with his gladius.

The Roman Empire was Europe's original empire, and its artistic and cultural legacy exists to this day.

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Answer 2

The roman empire is more important than the Greek empire because the roman empire came after the Persian and the greek empire( which are by the way great empires )and took all the great ideas of both empires and made one of their own. Your WELCOME :)

I'v been learning about Greeks and Romans, and Greeks were quite sucsefull they had the Greek thinkers and some artists and poets. But Romans were more sucsesfull as they also invented lots of things we could be using this second

Answer 3

Greece was never a world power. Greece was nothing but a collection of city-states which only united in times of severe crises. Each city was independent and had its own laws and customs and even religious festivals. The closest that Greece ever came to being a world power was during the exploits of Alexander the great when Greek culture spread. At Alexander's death it all split apart. Because of this lack of unity it was easy for other cultures to surpass Greece.

Far from being surpassed by other cultures, Greek culture became even more influential after Alexander the Great's conquests. These conquests begun the Hellenistic period. This was the period of the spread of Greek influence through the Middle East, Central Asia and Egypt because these areas were ruled by Greeks. Alexander the Great's conquests were partitioned between his generals and Greek rule in these areas continued. Alexandria, which is in Egypt, became the biggest centre of Greek learning.

Greece was not a loose collection of city-states throughout its history. At that time, the Kingdom of Macedon covered 1/3 of Greece and was the largest and the dominant state in Greece. There was also the Kingdom of Epirus, which covered the west and had been around longer. There were the Aeolian League and the Achaean League which turned the city-states in these alliances into significant local military forces. They were formed for defence against Macedon in the former and against Sparta in the latter

Rome surpassed Greece as a power because she conquered Greece. This was after four wars against Macedon. Macedon was annexed to the Roman Empire after the third war and the whole of Greece was conquered after the fourth. Rome's military manpower was larger than that of mainland Greece as she turned the Italic peoples of central and southern Italy (which was bigger than Greece) into allies who provided at least 60% of her soldiers. Greece was divided. Some of the Greek states allied with Rome during the first three wars and in the second and third war Rome got involved in Greece because she was asked for help by her Greek allies during disputes among Greek states. It was this involvement in Greek disputes that led Rome to take over Greece.

The Greek states formed in Asia and Africa with the partition of Alexander the Great' conquests were: the Kingdom of Pergamon in western Turkey (it became a Roman ally), the massive Seleucid Empire (eastern Turkey, Armenia, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, part of western Pakistan, parts of Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, Lebanon and Palestine) and the Ptolemaic kingdom (Egypt and parts of Turkey).

Answer 4

the Romans defeated both the greekes and the Persians because they played a patient defensive3 style where the others were all out attack