Did Rome Justify Rome's Leader?

In fact, they had over 50,000 miles of roads! These roads were originally used so that the military could communicate. But as time went on, these roads became a great tool for trade, leaving messages, and safe travel. In society today roads are everywhere. One huge influence on society is that our roads are crowned just like the Romans. This means that the center of the road is raised up so the water can roll down and doesn't stay in one place. It isn't needed as much today as it was back then, but it still comes in handy on highways. In addition to the fascinating way that Romans built roads, there was another huge influence that Rome had on society today. That influence is the arch.

     In addition, to the Roman government, the modern world has been influenced by Roman architecture as well. In every country and every state these days you will find roads or some type of paved road system. This derived from early Roman architectures. The Romans were the first to set up a highly advanced concrete road system that would aide in traveling. Although not as sophisticated as today's roads, the concrete used was not much different from what is used today. In fact the Roman constructed roads are still intact today. Along with road

It is commonly believed that the Roman Empire fell in 476 C.E. when barbarians invaded Rome, sent the last emperor of Western Rome into exile, political instability, too much land, and many other faults in their system, but did it fully fall? Anyone who visits this topic can argue that Ancient Rome never actually fell. In Crash Course: Fall of the Roman Empire, John Green said, "In some ways, [the Roman Empire] still survives today." This quote means that the Roman Empire didn’t actually fall fully, but still survives in present days. This essay will show how the Roman Empire still lives today in engineering and architecture, and in language and writing.

In document 8, the “flowing aqueducts” of the Roman Empire greatly increased the ability for people to live in very condensed areas, and therefore making the empire more efficient by allowing more people to live in smaller areas. The elected officials in each respected empire noted that, because of the technological advances, the empress benefited. Thus showing that the ideas of man to invent and reinvent are not always broken causes. Document 6 states that, the romans had very advanced roads built, roads built to last thousands of years. “For the roads were built to carry straight through the country without wavering and were paved with quarried stone and made solid by tightly packed sand.” This quote shows that, because of how technologically advanced the Romans were, they were able to build these roads, roads that still last

By 200 BC, Rome was quickly becoming one of the world’s greatest empires with their excellent military conquering territory from modern day Scotland to Spain. After the Punic Wars and the defeat of Carthage, Rome had full control of the Mediterranean region, establishing colonies in North Africa, Egypt, the Middle East, and Asia Minor. Julius Caesar became Rome’s first emperor using his military influence. Under his reign, Rome shifted from a republic to an empire under the rule of an emperor and the military. Rome steadily increased in stability, power, and wealth, reaching Pax Romana (the time of Roman peace) under Emperor Augustus Caesar. Rome was forced to discover, as many other

Rome was the largest and most powerful empire of its time. Its reign from 27 CE to 200 CE was by far the greatest civilization at that point. However, at some point every empire falls. The primary reason for this was the people of Rome. Due to the citizen’s unhappiness, Rome slowly crumbled starting with its leaders, then its army, and finally its economy.

He reunited the east and west under his own rule. He also built a new capital at Byzantium, on the Bosporus. He named this city Constantinople. Constantine wanted a new capital that would be a Christian city, not a pagan one. He continued the policies of Diocletian. People saw no need to work hard with no chance of getting ahead. These reforms only slowed down the process of collapse. After Constantine 's death in 337 A.D., the empire was again divided.

For the roads were carried straight through the country without wavering, and were paved with quarried stone, and made solid with masses of tightly packed sand. Hollows were filled up and bridges were built across whatever wintry streams or ravines cut the roads. And both sides were an equal and parallel height with the result that the road for its entire course had a level and beautiful appearance.” The Romans took great pride in their roads and all other projects because they had a great sense of nationalism. They really cared about their country being the best in everyway and most beautiful.

Many centuries before the birth of Christ, the city of Rome grew, prospered, and developed into a thriving Republic. As in most cultures, Rome's buildings became more elaborate and impressive. They developed fantastic building technologies and ideas. The feats of Roman engineers were groundbreaking, and many structures built by this culture still stand today. With knowledge borrowed from the Greeks, Rome made impressive architectural achievements, these were namely major attributes of buildings, colossal structures, and a legacy that would influence later buildings (Cornell and Matthews 11).

The passage I have chosen to write about is Cincinnatus Saves Rome. The title of the original source is Ab Urbe Condita, or commonly translated as The History of Rome, which was written by Livy. This project, created around 25 BCE, consisted of a series of books in which Roman history was discussed. These books covered historical events dating all the way back to the construction of Rome. This piece represents the perspective of early Romans and was used as an example of what it meant to be a good Roman citizen. During the fifth century BCE, which was when the story of Cincinnatus took place, the Romans were under attack by the Aequi. Rome was in a state of turmoil and Cincinnatus, as a temporary Dictator, was their only hope.

The question that this book asks is a simple one of why did Rome fall. Perkins says there is no one reason that Rome fell and that is was for many reasons the empire crumbled leaving the west to rot and the east to thrive. The western empire was constantly under attack by the Germanic tribes from across the Rhine river. The tribes that they considered to be barbarians would push into Roman land and sack towns and pillage until they were pushed back by the army. This mixed with pressure from the east caused the Roman army to be bouncing back and forth across the empire always leaving one flank exposed. Now that the capitol had be moved to the east that was the main focus of what needed to be defended. This led to either no troop or either not enough troops being stationed in the western empire to hold of the barbarians. Taxes started to get higher and higher on the people to be able to pay for all the wars that were going on simply to defend the empires boarders. This in turned weakened the empire and lead to people revolting and trying to usurp the throne causing even more instability in the empire from within. Religion also lead to revolts and the masses fighting among one another. Most of the rebels and usurpers were simply after the throne and didn 't care much about the barbarians as they were just looting and had no plans to mess with roman politics. This made troop and there commanders abandon there posts and try to start a civil war. This lead to more unhappy people

When the third triumvirate divided the Roman Empire after Caesar's death, Marcus Antonius was given domain over the eastern provinces. Foreseeing a future of warfare, Marcus Antonius intelligently appointed Lucius Verus to rule the eastern provinces alongside him. When the Parthian invasion occurred Marcus Antonius insured that he contributed his best generals and armies to recover his lost territories. The recovery was extremely successful that Marcus crowned a new vassel and conquered Mesopotamia which was also Parthian territory. One success led to another as Marcus and his son severely defeated the Marcomanni and the Quadi gaining Danubian provinces during the Marcomannic wars. Unfortunately, Lucius Verus died during these wars but that

I think if the Roman empire chose its new rulers more carefully there wouldn't have been emperors like Caligula, who got happiness in other peoples pain and suffering, maybe if they elected their rulers like they did in the Roman Republic, they could choose who would be the newest emperor. They could have also been able to tell if their new ruler had pure intentions. If the Roman Republic had a tighter voting system, they wouldn't have the richer men paying people to vote for them. That could potentially put the entire Republic at risk. Thankfully they could only have one term, so the people of Rome would only have to suffer for so long, but still. Maybe if there was a law that made sure no one would cheat at the voting system, it would be

This was a rather challenging question and I think you did a very good job in addressing it. I too chose the same questions and I do think that your make a strong point that he was revered as a hero. I am not sure that his subtleness had much effect on people’s feelings of accepting the change. I think that because of what he had done for the empire by ending the civil war, and leading the empire towards prosperity, Romans would’ve overlooked or probably even support this shift of power.

Now that you know a little but about ancient Rome, we will now learn about what our world would be like today if Rome NEVER existed! First of all if it didn’t exist then we would not have the many things that the Roman Empire created for example… Without the Romans we would not have roads. The old proverb “all roads lead to Rome” stems from the fact that originally they sort of did, or rather they came from Rome. We would also not have central heating British winters would be all but unbearable for many of the people many people would have died if they did not create it. We would also not have concrete, Roman concrete was made from sand, water and lime. Its widespread use in many Roman structures were a big influence on what is now known as