How Did The Roman Empires Influence Ancient Rome

The Roman Empire was the most widespread administrative and societal structure of Western civilization. By 285, C.E, the Roman Empire had grown too vast to be ruled from the central government at Rome. The Romans showed a talent of borrowing and improving upon the skills and concepts of other cultures. They borrowed extensively from the Greeks and also from the Egyptians, Persians and the Carthaginians. All this was done in an attempt to try to conquer and spread their ideologies throughout the world (Richard, 2008). The Greeks had settled in southern Italy and Sicily since the 8th century. In this way, Italian tribes came into contact with Greek culture. Romans themselves borrowed ideas from the Greeks in the fields of art,
The Romans borrowed a number of religious beliefs from the Egyptians that were reflected in practices such as the creation of a temple in worship of the Egyptian goddess Isis. Conduct between Rome and Persia was established in 96 BCE. Political rivalry between the two empires would dominate Western Asia and Europe till 628.The Persian god Mithras became very popular among the armies of Rome, predating Christianity, which was the main religion (Jay, 2000). There is an intimate connection between the history of Rome and Carthage, a city in Tunisia, North Africa. Cartage was the center of a civilization that resulted from the Phoenician expansion into Sicily, Malta, Sardinia, and the North African coast. (Janick, 2008). It was the first great imperial opponent of Rome and, after being defeated by the Romans in the Second Punic war, it stepped down to allow the Roman Republic to become the most powerful empire in the Mediterranean (Andrea, & Overfield, 2009). Cippi and Stelaes made of limestone were used in distinctive monuments of Punic art and religion, which the Romans copied from the Carthigians. Cippus stone defined routes and distances of roads, as well as the course and spacing of aqueducts in Rome. Stelae was used in upright monuments and gravestones with inscriptions and/or designs in them (Frontinus &