Compare the Impacts of Rome and Greece on Western Civilization.

The civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome have arguably been amongst the most and influential through history. There are as will be evaluated a great deal of similarities as well as differences when it comes down to the religious, political, social structures and worldviews of Ancient Greece and Rome. These two civilizations had a key role in the way the European civilizations developed and also evolved over many centuries; and have had a significant influence over modern Western cultures. In their differing ways the religious, political, social structures and worldviews of Ancient Greece and Rome demonstrated the sophistication and the achievements of both these remarkable civilizations.
The Civilization of Ancient Greece developed before that of Rome, and its impact would arguably be more important than earlier civilizations such as those of Egypt, Babylon, and Persia. Other earlier civilizations had done a fair amount to improve technology, understanding, and knowledge yet was not generally as advanced as that of Ancient Greece. The Egyptians, the Persians, and the Chinese did much to advance the levels of human understanding and culture, yet done of them developed such systematic knowledge as the Ancient Greeks did.
A great deal of evidence about the achievements and the knowledge of the Ancient Greeks had survived to the present day, which makes it easier to understand their Civilization (Roberts, 1996, p.21)
Ancient Greece began to flourish around the 8th century BC, due to the acquisition of writing and literacy skills, greater political stability as well as the establishing of trade contacts with Southern Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. Ancient Greece was not a unified country rather it was a series of city-states and settlements often described by the Greeks as polis. The most powerful and important of these city states included Athens, Corinth, Macedonia, and Sparta. Some of these Greek city-states formed colonies in the Aegean and beyond which helped to spread Greek Civilization further afield (Speake, 1995, p.291).