Democracy, elections, systems of underground pipes for running water, and great movies
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Greek and Roman
They invented an alphabet from which developed the Greek and Roman alphabets, and hence today's alphabets.
Roman philosophy had not affected today's culture much. It is Greek philosophy which had had an impact . It also had an impact of the Romans. They followed the stoic school and the epicurean school. Both were Greek. Stoicism had some influence in the 19th century.
The Romans were deeply influenced by the Greeks. The adopted some Greek gods and many Greek myths and later they linked their gods to Greek ones. Roman architecture adopted Greek styles for temples and porticoes. From the late 1st century BC they copied Greek statues and modelled their own on Greek ones. They adopted Greek sports and the Greek gymnasium. Today we still have Greco-Roman wrestling. They adopted Greek medicine. They adopted Greek cranes and siege machines, and greatly improved on the cranes and the ballista (a catapult). Early Latin tragedy was based on or copied Greek tragedy and early Latin poetry was based on Greek verse. The first professional educators in Rome were Greeks. The Roman elites received an education in both Latin and Greek. The pinnacle of their education was a stay in Greece to study Greek philosophy.
Greek, Israeli, Roman and today's European and European-origin countries adopted and modified it.
There various ancient civilizations that most affect US culture today. Some of them include ancient Greek, ancient Roman, Mayan and so many others.
The concept of a receptacle for waste dates back to ancient Greek and Roman civilizations, but the modern garbage can as we know it today was patented by Ned Harvey in 1879.
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Greek and Roman
Planets were named after Greek and Roman gods because during ancient times, these civilizations associated celestial bodies with their deities. The tradition continues today as a way to honor the mythological figures that hold significance in human history and culture.
philosophy and government
They invented an alphabet from which developed the Greek and Roman alphabets, and hence today's alphabets.
They developed an alphabet which became the basis of Greek and Roman, and hence the alphabets of today.
It formed the basis of the Greek and Roman alphabets, and so our alphabets of today.
Mars is a Roman god, that of war. His Greek equivalent is Ares.
Today most of Italy is Roman Catholic and Greece is mostly Greek Orthodox.