The Roman empire is said to have been the most successful in ancient times as a result of good political, economic, social, and cultural organization.
The Roman Empire achieved civilization because of a strong army, which provided the backbone for conquering more lands and acquiring wealth and other forms of civilization.
Their army was made up of a legion that consisted of well-trained soldiers in the world.
The Romans had a very strong army, which was used for expanding the territory.
Their legion was so far the most powerful in the world and it could defeat even larger armies as they carried out the conquests.
Most historians argue that the Romans are the founding fathers of many cities.
Romans founded London in the United Kingdom under the name Londinium. The Roman republic made a significant contribution towards law and justice because they came up with the principle of innocent until proven guilty. This came from the twelve tables, which were fundamental in the political and social organization of the Roman republic.
They have also been attributed to the beginning of symbolism such as rings for instance to demonstrate friendship, engagement, or even a marriage covenant by the wedding.
The Romans are also said to have been the founders of some ball games such as hoops.
Many intellectuals who are full of elitists speak in favor of the autocratic rulers who are characterized by the rigid social class and brutal class system.
These ideologies are still a model today and are still used today as a premise for historical justification of some Bad social policies which are popular with the majority of autocratic rulers.
In terms of Greek influence As the Romans interacted with people from Greece, their religion was affected.
Worshipping in the family unit remained unchanged but for the state religion, considerable changes were realized.
The Greeks came with their writers and philosophers especially those who were enslaved because of the Roman conquest. Greek slaves started writing about Rome and its people.
As the Romans conquered Greek and plundered wealth, they interfered with the refinement and morality of the Greeks.
The Greeks were characterized with a pure aesthetic spirit, which they used to do their arts. This kind of spirit inspired the Romans into admiring and collecting Greek arts such as ornaments with which they used to decorate their buildings. By adopting and imitating these works of art, in fact, the Romans began preserving Greek art and thus making it very popular in Rome.
The Romans had to lose their simple life and adopted a life full of luxuries with a lot of love for show and pomp. Such a life could rather be considered to be artificial than real because the influence was from external factors.
Several contributing factors came into the combination to cause the prosperous Republic of the fourth, third, and early second centuries B.C. to undergo a transformation, or perhaps degenerate into a struggling state inundated by a domestic state of disorder and instability abroad.
Once violence became conventional and often resorted to means of political conduct and once the Republic turned into an offensively expanding state, the aristocratic Republic succumbed to the pressure for an autocratic Empire.
The aggressive and expansionistic foreign policy that kept dominating the second half of the Republic had many shortcomings, including a dramatic increase in bureaucracy, a professional and over-extended military and a general increase in problems that in the end made the Republic completely unsustainable and therefore collapse followed.
Many historians blame the increased bureaucracy as a cause for concentrated political ambition and conflict within Rome.
The expanded bureaucracy and military of the late Republic, made possible by the overextended territorial late Republic, became a liability to Rome and led to domestic disorder and violence.