How Ancient Rome Still Rules Our Modern World

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No other empire and culture deserves the title “Greatest Civilization in World’s History” more than that of Ancient Rome.

Most people Today are not aware of the huge legacy that the Ancient Romans gave us and therefore in this article I am going to give you, the reader, a brief overview of Ancient Rome’s contribution to our modern daily life. You will learn why I believe that Ancient Rome is the most important civilization in all of our history and most likely discover and be able to make a connection to your personal background.

And to already throw in the first quick fact as we speak of "civilization": Even the word itself has its origin in the Latin term of “Civitas”, with which the Romans described their city state of Rome.

So let's start and first have a look at the Ancient Roman civilization itself:

Officially founded as the Roman Kingdom in 753 BC, later running as the Roman Republic, then as the Roman Empire and finally as the Eastern Roman Empire (aka the Byzantine Empire) up until its end in 1453 AD, the Romans made quite a journey through the ages. That’s over 2,200 years of history!

The Roman Empire itself also holds the Guinness World Record as "the Longest Lasting Empire in History", listed on their website as around 1,500 years.

The term “Byzantine Empire” was coined only a very short time ago by some historians, while inhabitants of the “Byzantine Empire” never called themselves like that and considered themselves simply as inhabitants of Eastern Rome.

At its peak in around 150 AD, 36% of the world's population lived in the Roman Empire and Rome was the first city in history to reach 1 Million inhabitants.

The Roman Empire embraced a territory of over 4.4 Million square kilometers, which is pretty much the same area as the modern European Union.

To manage their empire Ancient Romans introduced a high level of bureaucracy and the practice of writing everything down. This is important because documenting everything is one of the reasons why we know so much about the Romans Today and is also the reason why so many of the Roman best practices were passed on to the civilizations following them.



Inventing and Spreading the Western Culture
The Romans were the main force in spreading many aspects of what is known Today as the "Western Culture". This includes:

Western values, government and law concepts (see further below)
Civil engineering and infrastructure
The welfare state
An organized military
Christianity (world’s most spread religion)
Architecture (domes, large arches, vaults, amphitheaters, racing arenas)
Art (including mosaics and sculptures)
Literature (e.g. Caeser's "Gallic Wars", Virgil’s “Aeneid”, Seneca, Ovid, Marcus Aurelius et al.)
Shopping centers (Imperia fora)
Food (e.g. Gnocchi, Burgers)
Wine culture
...and much more
A lot of what we experience Today as the “Western values” most likely was a value back then in Rome as well (mos maiorum). Work hard, be creative and practical, respect your family, country and gods, fight for your freedom, be good, just and trustworthy, act wise, be brave and strong, show moderation and endurance – just to name a few. In the modern era these Western values were spread by the British Empire and the Reformed Christianity with their colonies throughout the whole world.

Forum Romanum, Rome
Inventing the 19th Century City
The Romans were master builders and constructed cities that had buildings with up to 7 storeys (insula) as well as iconic land marks, many of which you can still visit Today (the Colosseum, the Pantheon, the Forum Romanum).

Many of the Roman structures survived to this day because the Romans invented a special light, but strong and water-resistant type of concrete. As a result you can e.g. still see some of the gigantic 2,000 year old bridges Today, e.g. the Pont du Gard.

The Romans were so good at building that one time the famous Julius Caeser constructed a bridge over the Rhine river within two weeks, crossed it with his army, camped a few days and then returned back destroying the bridge behind him. All just to show the barbarians that the Romans simply can come over at any time and crush them if they want to.

Furthermore, Roman civil engineering and technological inventions, many of which were not rediscovered up until the Industrial Age (!), included:

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How Ancient Rome Still Rules Our Modern World

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Alexander N. Steiner
Partner Manager Manufacturing Solutions…
Published Sep 8, 2019
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By Alexander N. Steiner

No other empire and culture deserves the title “Greatest Civilization in World’s History” more than that of Ancient Rome.

Most people Today are not aware of the huge legacy that the Ancient Romans gave us and therefore in this article I am going to give you, the reader, a brief overview of Ancient Rome’s contribution to our modern daily life. You will learn why I believe that Ancient Rome is the most important civilization in all of our history and most likely discover and be able to make a connection to your personal background.

And to already throw in the first quick fact as we speak of "civilization": Even the word itself has its origin in the Latin term of “Civitas”, with which the Romans described their city state of Rome.

So let's start and first have a look at the Ancient Roman civilization itself:

Officially founded as the Roman Kingdom in 753 BC, later running as the Roman Republic, then as the Roman Empire and finally as the Eastern Roman Empire (aka the Byzantine Empire) up until its end in 1453 AD, the Romans made quite a journey through the ages. That’s over 2,200 years of history!

The Roman Empire itself also holds the Guinness World Record as "the Longest Lasting Empire in History", listed on their website as around 1,500 years.

The term “Byzantine Empire” was coined only a very short time ago by some historians, while inhabitants of the “Byzantine Empire” never called themselves like that and considered themselves simply as inhabitants of Eastern Rome.

At its peak in around 150 AD, 36% of the world's population lived in the Roman Empire and Rome was the first city in history to reach 1 Million inhabitants.

The Roman Empire embraced a territory of over 4.4 Million square kilometers, which is pretty much the same area as the modern European Union.

To manage their empire Ancient Romans introduced a high level of bureaucracy and the practice of writing everything down. This is important because documenting everything is one of the reasons why we know so much about the Romans Today and is also the reason why so many of the Roman best practices were passed on to the civilizations following them.

Inventing and Spreading the Western Culture
The Romans were the main force in spreading many aspects of what is known Today as the "Western Culture". This includes:

Western values, government and law concepts (see further below)
Civil engineering and infrastructure
The welfare state
An organized military
Christianity (world’s most spread religion)
Architecture (domes, large arches, vaults, amphitheaters, racing arenas)
Art (including mosaics and sculptures)
Literature (e.g. Caeser's "Gallic Wars", Virgil’s “Aeneid”, Seneca, Ovid, Marcus Aurelius et al.)
Shopping centers (Imperia fora)
Food (e.g. Gnocchi, Burgers)
Wine culture
...and much more
A lot of what we experience Today as the “Western values” most likely was a value back then in Rome as well (mos maiorum). Work hard, be creative and practical, respect your family, country and gods, fight for your freedom, be good, just and trustworthy, act wise, be brave and strong, show moderation and endurance – just to name a few. In the modern era these Western values were spread by the British Empire and the Reformed Christianity with their colonies throughout the whole world.

Forum Romanum, Rome
Inventing the 19th Century City
The Romans were master builders and constructed cities that had buildings with up to 7 storeys (insula) as well as iconic land marks, many of which you can still visit Today (the Colosseum, the Pantheon, the Forum Romanum).

Many of the Roman structures survived to this day because the Romans invented a special light, but strong and water-resistant type of concrete. As a result you can e.g. still see some of the gigantic 2,000 year old bridges Today, e.g. the Pont du Gard.

The Romans were so good at building that one time the famous Julius Caeser constructed a bridge over the Rhine river within two weeks, crossed it with his army, camped a few days and then returned back destroying the bridge behind him. All just to show the barbarians that the Romans simply can come over at any time and crush them if they want to.

Furthermore, Roman civil engineering and technological inventions, many of which were not rediscovered up until the Industrial Age (!), included:

Public access to fresh running water (over 800 km of aqueducts in the city of Rome alone).
Public bathes and bathes with heated floors.
Public toilets with flushing function and a canalisation system. A big part of the modern world is still behind these Roman hygiene standards!
Public schools for learning reading, writing and counting.
The Romans had an early type of public info boards (Acta Diurna), where information was written on metal or stone blocks and then posted in heavily trafficked areas. The great Julius Caesar additionally ordered the publication of the proceedings of the Roman senate (Acta Senatus), giving the common people the possibility to see what the senators where discussing behind closed doors.

The Romans were also the first who actually came to the idea of binding a stack of paper pages together and thus inventing the first books! Before the Romans the world only knew clay tablets and scrolls.

Connecting and Conquering the World
To manage their huge empire the Romans built over 400,000 km of roads and over 900 bridges. These “international highways” were first of all built for the military and enabled the Roman legion to move as fast as 40 km per day.

There was also a “highway patrol”, special soldiers dedicated to ensuring safe travel on these roads.

Besides being able to spread information and knowledge with an immense speed, with their extensive road network, the Romans also spread their cuisine: With moving armies, food vendors using stalls where following the demand and provided food-on-the-move. This spread the Roman cuisine and new food ingredients across the Empire (like e.g. introducing apples, garlic, onions, shallots, leeks, cabbages, peas, celery, turnips, radishes, and asparagus, walnuts, sweet chestnuts, grapes, mulberries and cherries to Britain).

The Roman military machine consisted of the world’s first professional standing army, equipped with the latest high-end siege weapons. Many historians agree that the Romans would most likely have smashed the ancient Chinese Empire, if confronted. The reason for that being, that even though the Chinese army was much larger, it consisted mostly of soldiers who were peasants during peace time, while the average Roman legionary trained for 10 hours a day and was up to 20 years in service.

For many centuries Roman soldiers had a longer average life span than the average citizen due to the invention of battlefield medical care and surgery units. Roman medical inventions also included the use hemostatic tourniquets and arterial surgical clamps to limit blood loss. Additionally, medical instruments were disinfected in boiling water before usage, a hygiene practice that was not repeated until the 19th century!

Colosseum, Rome
Inventing the Modern Society and State
The Romans took the best from the classical Greek and Egyptian world (democracy, architecture, philosophy) and added their own inventions and practical thinking onto it, making them dominant over other cultures in almost every aspect. Rome's power was based on three main pillars: a professional army machine, technological advancement/practicality, and a general opportunistic open mindedness. What was of no practical or idealistic use for the Romans was left to the Greeks and hence the Greeks eventually got conquered by the Romans.

But before someone insists that the Romans had slaves and went to ruthless wars as well. Yes, this is true. But this is also true for pretty much every single ancient civilization. Times were harsh and deadly back then. However, and this is the key point, of all the ancient civilizations back then, the Romans were the least cruel and the most civilized one. No other ancient civilization provided you free fresh drinking water 24/7 and guaranteed your civil and property rights by law. In Ancient Rome every free citizen had the chance to become rich as an entrepreneur and every rich person had the chance to influence politics.

And before Christianity became the state religion, the empire showed an immense culture of tolerance and inclusion towards their citizen with regards to religious freedom. Every new tribe and region that was incorporated into the empire, the Natives were allowed to keep and continue to practice their local religions.

Only later, during the Eastern Roman Empire, when Christianity became the state religion, the religious freedom pretty much ended and Christianity was enforced onto everyone. Many nations who had border contact with the Eastern Roman Empire, like the Russians, adopted the Orthodox Christian religion from the Romans and hence, Russians are still orthodox Christians Today.

The Romans also invented welfare. Powerful politicians worked hard to gain public support and introduced government programs for the distribution of free food, supporting education and providing medical support to the poorer citizens. One of the programs, known as “Alimenta”, was introduced to help feed, clothe and educate poor children and orphans. This program still runs Today under the concept of alimony.

The Pantheon, Rome
Rome’s Massive Legacy for Today
After the Dark & Middle Age came the Renaissance and this was the time when the ideas of Ancient Rome and the classical world were rediscovered in Central Europe again. This then led to the Industrialization and the modern world. Bringing us to the here and now of 2019. So let's now have a look at Rome's legacy on our daily life Today:

In 2019, almost all of European and South American Countries and half of Asian and African countries base their laws on the Roman civil law concept introduced during the Roman Empire. Almost 2,000 years ago, the Roman civil law concept already included:

Laws protecting human rights and equal opportunity for all citizens.
Freedom of thought and speech by law.
The right to equal treatment and trial under law for everyone, with the consequence that being rich in most cases would not have saved you from true justice.
The concept that a legal trial must include a judge, a suitor and a defendant.
The accused was innocent until proven guilty and the accuser must provide the proof, not the one being accused.
The right to own property and the right to freedom of contract.
The right to write wills and testaments.
Detailed laws on corporate structures, marriage, divorce and criminal behaviour.







Baruch 4:2

“Turn thee, O Jacob, and take hold of it: walk in the presence of the light thereof, that thou mayest be illuminated.”

You have to read too see the hidden.


Baruch 4:2

“Turn thee, O Jacob, and take hold of it: walk in the presence of the light thereof, that thou mayest be illuminated.”

This is educative nice one sir

But white man go talk say black no get history

This is what is hidden from even the most learned.


The 7 kings of Edom.


Romulus, Titus Tatius, Numa Pompilius, Tullo Ostilius, Tarquinus Priscus, Ancus Marcius and Tarquinius Superbus

Prosperous111:
But white man go talk say black no get history

No they don't it's only Whites that admit I am correct on saying Rome is Black.

Luke 8:17
For nothing is hidden that will not be made manifest, nor is anything secret that will not be known and come to light

King James is he Black or is he White? Then why two portraits of him portraying him as Black and White?

We know who heads the Illuminati so we know Black heads are behind the deception?

King George III of Great Britain is he Black or is he White? How come again two portrayals of him Black and White?

Well we know Rome ruled all of Europe and now we know who the true Romans are.

Sidi Mohammed bin Abdellah al-Khatibknown as Mohammed III (Arabic:born in 1710 in Fes and died on 9 April 1790 in Meknes, was the Sultan of Morocco from 1757 to 1790 as a member of the 'Alawi dynasty.


The Sultan was originally Black when he died they put his White relative upon the throne of Morocco.


Why the deception?

Constantine the Great Emperor yet why two portraits of him, one Black and the other White?

Charlemagne Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire in 800 A D. Why two portraits of him portraying him as Black and as White?


Why are we deliberately forced to see race instead of what these men represented?

And how come American Indians are Black and Red? And what are 5 US dollar Indians?

So who really are the Native Americans and what genealogy do they come from in the Bible?

Why so many ancestors when this should be clear we are living in a matrix of lies?

How come we have two origins for Jews? One Black and the other White, yet which is the truth?

And who is behind these lies? The Illuminati that's who.

And for Africans who never went into slavery, never stripped of language, culture, society and tradition then they would know the lies from the truth.

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I think Egypt is missing

Anieke77:

I think Egypt is missing

It's a dead horse that's been beat too much by Black scholars. Yet Here is Egypt:

Ancient Egyptians referred to their homeland as Kmt (conventionally pronounced as Kemet). According to Cheikh Anta Diop, the Egyptians referred to themselves as "Black" people or kmt, and km was the etymological root of other words, such as Kam or Ham, which refer to Black people in Hebrew tradition

Here we go again another deception, this time it's the second dynasty to rule the Holy Roman Empire founded by the Black Frankish king Emperor Charlemagne. After the Carolingian dynasty of Franks came the Saxons. A little history first, Emperor Charlemagne slaughtered a whole town of about 4000 Saxons and many fled to England becoming Anglo-Saxon. Of the ones the remained Saxon chiefs converted to Catholicism and they became more Carolingian than the Carolingian, often imitating them in look and style. After the last Carolingian king Emperor Louis the child produced no heir the Carolingian went into civil war unable to choose a successor. After much warfare they decided to elect a Saxon to throne Otto 1 the Great.

Here is a statue of Otto 1 the Great and his Queen who are both obviously Black.

Yet there is more controversy as there is also a White Otto 1 the Great.

Now you can blame the Whiteman yet it's the Illuminati behind it.

Here we go again another Illuminati deception. This time we have Emperor Charles V around 1500 he reign as the Hasburg dynasty Holy Roman Empire in Germany. We have two captions of Emperor Charles V one Black and one White, which is correct?


Oh yes he appears to be the father of the Hasburg jaw.

Queen Charlotte Black or White?

Big controversy.

Queen of France and wife of King Louis Auguste De France the 16th was painted as Black by a famous artist, yet was she really?

Another controversy.

Richard I of England obviously a mulatto yet promoted also as White.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxj0vncr5Gs
Pretty Mike stirs reaction at #Akinsiku@50

King Richard I and II both appear to be Black.

HarshBitterTrut:
They have made their ˹false˺ oaths as a shield, hindering ˹others˺ from the Way of Allah. Evil indeed is what they do!

This is because they believed and then abandoned faith. Therefore, their hearts have been sealed, so they do not comprehend.


When you see them, their appearance impresses you. And when they speak, you listen to their ˹impressive˺ speech. But they are ˹just˺ like ˹worthless˺ planks of wood leaned ˹against a wall˺. They think every cry is against them. They are the enemy, so beware of them. May Allah condemn them! How can they be deluded ˹from the truth˺?

“In Granada the use, and abuse, of wine and hashish along with prostitution and sodomy extended to all levels of society,” the historian of Moorish sexuality Dr Antonio Arjona Castro.

In the East is where the traditions of homosexual pedophilia originate where pagan idolatry first appeared upon the Earth. Many pagan kingdoms existed way into the 20th century as colonial laws rose up in Africa and the Middle Eastern regions. The Bazi boys tradition among Orthodox Islam, pedophile priests among the Catholic and Orthodox church and well as various pagan religions. Yet somehow this all gets blamed on the West although Babylon, Canaan, Egypt, Greece and Rome are of Eastern origin.


In the West which is Europe and America we have had pedophile rings consisting of Black and White yet homosexual pedophilia was illegal by Judeo Christian law. Sodomy itself was punishable by death in European kingdoms and Early America. This is why in the closet was used to describe the sodomite lifestyle and it mainly consisted of aristocrats, clergy and rich elites who often acted above the law and got away with it.

Now all the Kings of France were Black beginning from the Merovingian Franks, Carolingian Franks to the Capet Franks.

Yet why is there two Louis XV? One Black and one White. The first is a Blackman which is the older portrait and second is a Whiteman with a slightly new colored portrait.

The Jesuit Illuminati overthrew the French monarchy in 1792 and decapitated Louis the 16th aka King Louis Auguste De France.

Louis the XIV one Black and one White?

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Merovingian Frankish Kings