American Influence On Rome

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Rome was built on 7 hills far inland to defend self from pirates near the coast and any other enemies on land. U.S has to deal with the same kind of pirates they had and has plenty of hills, for example the 7 hills that are named in Washington D.C.: “Capitol hill, Meridian hill, Floral hills, Forest hills, Hillbrook, Hillcrest, and Knoxhill”. The ones that are fending off the enemies to the Roman population that is about 4 times larger than Greensboro, North Carolina alone or simply fending off the criminals who choose to rob or mug some random citizen in the crowded streets just like in the streets of New York could be poor landless farmers that are under the command of the general that in return are given land to keep as long they are still …show more content…

Although that doesn’t mean that they are the only inhabitance aside from Romans, there were also Indo-Europeans and Greek (Greek being the ones who influenced Rome ,but not the most because that was the Etruscans who did, then passing the influence down to us) that populated Rome. U.S. on the other hand, you had citizenship if you were born here or were required go through some procedures like a test and classes if you are from a foreign country, or an immigrant, so basically anyone could be a citizen and there are already many different people from all over the world who live here. For those citizens they, there are protections for them, for instance there were political institutions that responded to a problem that came up and something called “homeland security” that sort of functions the same way. For some people those “protections” couldn’t do much for them when it came to religion. At first, if you were Christian in Rome, you would’ve been killed because it was seen as a revolutionary by Romans and people were scared they would start a revolt. They were disliked by many to point where if a whole town was burned then it would be blamed on them. Though that changed much later when Christianity became Rome’s official religion. There were other religions practiced but this one specifically was noticed well enough. Christianity is also an Official religion here but it’s not the only one, now any religion is basically a U.S.

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