How has ancient Roman technology affected modern life?
Introduction
The modern world’s debt to many aspects of the Roman Empire is easy to identify. Modern European languages owe much to Latin, as do modern legal systems, modern literature, philosophical thinking, even the very histories and self-identities of modern nations. Cities in Europe, especially areas to the “North and West of Greece and Italy” exist today because the Romans built them. Before the Romans, “the concept of the city was unknown” in these regions (Reader 82). Cities were “The...
