Why Is Rome Important To Us Today?

Rome has lead many doors open for us because of their legacies and lessons they have left behind for us. Its 40 mile aqueducts, and its 50,000 miles of road has left us to new ideas that we use today because of the romans. We think a lot like the romans, such as their religions they have started that we to continued, or branch off of. Without modern day technology we have, they had to form their own way of technology, like building a bridge in 10 days, a feat we couldn’t even do today. There are much more invision/ways the roman did, but this will only cover the ones that are most important to us today. Rome spent their days building “thousands of miles of wonderful roads, (50,00 miles of road), to connect every part of the empire back to rome.” This quote signifies that the romans made sure they didn’t have a single bit of land unscaved that they needed to go to. We also have roads connecting to everyplace you want to go, no walking just roads upon roads to arrive at your destination. Without Roman roads, we would have most likely not of had roads, or not have had roads lead to every destination, instead lead to one area, and you would have to walk. Another quote states that apparently,
The have showed us the old school way of doing things, that we turned modern, and is a huge part of our everyday lives. Without the romans, we would probably collapse like the romans did because of none of these resources. Rome fell because of the eight reasons of “Invasions by barbarian tribes, economic troubles, the rise of the Eastern Empire, overexpansion and military overspending, government corruption, the arrival of the Huns, christianity, and weakening of the Roman legions”. (source of the 8 reasons found here, the video you showed us) If rome fell for those reasons, we would fall for much more reasons, like not good roads, or not having proper religions to