How did Rome's impact with the Hellenistic world effect the growth of Roman civilization in it's early years?
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it allowed it to conquer more land
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Macedonia - ancient, rather than modern.
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Some impact today:\nPtolemy was the author of several scientific treatises, three of which would be of continuing importance to later Islamic and European science. The first is the astronomical treatise that is now known as the Almagest (in Greek Η μεγάλη Σύνταξις , "The Great Treatise"). The second is the Geography, which is a thorough discussion of the geographic knowledge of the Greco-Roman world. The third is the astrological treatise known as the Tetrabiblos ("Four books") in which he attempted to adapt horoscopic astrology to the Aristotelian natural philosophy of his day.\n\n\nLittle to no impact today:\n\nMUSIC\nPtolemy also wrote an influential work, Harmonics, on music theory. After criticizing the approaches of his predecessors, Ptolemy argued for basing musical intervals on mathematical ratios (in contrast to the followers of Aristoxenus) backed up by empirical observation (in contrast to the overly-theoretical approach of the Pythagoreans). He presented his own divisions of the tetrachord and the octave, which he derived with the help of a monochord. Ptolemy's astronomical interests also appeared in a discussion of the music of the spheres.\n\nOTHER WORKS\nIn his Optics, a work which survives only in a poor Arabic translation, he writes about properties of light, including reflection, refraction and colour. The work is a significant part of the early history of optics. His other works include Planetary Hypothesis, Planisphaerium and Analemma.
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100 A.D.\nThe Roman connection\nThe Romans also did much to spread glassmaking technology. With its conquests, trade relations, road building, and effective political and economical administration, the Roman Empire created the conditions for the flourishing of glassworks across western Europe and the Mediterranean. During the reign of the emperor Augustus, glass objects began to appear throughout Italy, in France, Germany and Switzerland. Roman glass has even been found as far afield as China, shipped there along the silk routes.\n\nIt was the Romans who began to use glass for architectural purposes, with the discovery of clear glass (through the introduction of manganese oxide) in Alexandria around AD 100. Cast glass windows, albeit with poor optical qualities, thus began to appear in the most important buildings in Rome and the most luxurious villas of Herculaneum and Pompeii.\n\nWith the geographical division of the empires, glass craftsmen began to migrate less, and eastern and western glassware gradually acquired more distinct characteristics. Alexandria remained the most important glassmaking area in the East, producing luxury glass items mainly for export. The world famous Portland Vase is perhaps the finest known example of Alexandrian skills. In Rome's Western empire, the city of Köln in the Rhineland developed as the hub of the glassmaking industry, adopting, however, mainly eastern techniques. Then, the decline of the Roman Empire and culture slowed progress in the field of glassmaking techniques, particularly through the 5th century. Germanic glassware became less ornate, with craftsmen abandoning or not developing the decorating skills they had acquired.\n\n11th century\nSheet glass skills\nThe 11th century also saw the development by German glass craftsmen of a technique - then further developed by Venetian craftsmen in the 13th century - for the production of glass sheets. By blowing a hollow glass sphere and swinging it vertically, gravity would pull the glass into a cylindrical "pod" measuring as much as 3 metres long, with a width of up to 45 cm. While still hot, the ends of the pod were cut off and the resulting cylinder cut lengthways and laid flat. Other types of sheet glass included crown glass (also known as "bullions"), relatively common across western Europe. With this technique, a glass ball was blown and then opened outwards on the opposite side to the pipe. Spinning the semi-molten ball then caused it to flatten and increase in size, but only up to a limited diameter. The panes thus created would then be joined with lead strips and pieced together to create windows. Glazing remained, however, a great luxury up to the late Middle Ages, with royal palaces and churches the most likely buildings to have glass windows. Stained glass windows reached their peak as the Middle Ages drew to a close, with an increasing number of public buildings, inns and the homes of the wealthy fitted with clear or coloured glass decorated with historical scenes and coats of arms.\n\n\nPossibly, but high quality didn't emerge until 1,000 years later.
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The Renaissance was the rebirth of antiquity. This is the time when art, literature, etc began to reflect that of ancient Greece and Rome. It was also the beginning of the advent of learning. The Middle Ages was plagued by disease and warfare as well as the destruction of art and literature from the past. The Renaissance brought culture and knowledge to the forefront. It was also the beginning of secular humanism.
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Diplomacy/Influence - a small nation state may be influenced to ally with and then become an integral part of the larger civilization due to the advantages - benefitting from medical advances (etc).
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The Athenian fifth century known as Golden Age, was mainly concentrated on the period of Pericles. The Athenian statesman, who dominated the political scene for forty years, is associated with the cultural activity that produced the great buildings on the Acropolis Hill. \nFind more imfo in site below
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What is amazing about it? of course most ancient Romans where educated people and colonial Americans where the poor Europeans that wanted to start a new life somewhere else.
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How about the role of Dante Alighieri, in development of the Italian language, through his great work, the "Divina Commedia"?\n\nOr, as part of that, his impact on history? There is also extensive historical material about his life and times, in the "Commedia".
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This older worship was associated with Numa Pompilius, the second king of Rome, who was believed to have had as his consort and adviser the Roman goddess of fountains and childbirth, Egeria, who is often identified as a nymph in later literary sources. New elements were added at a relatively early date, however. To the royal house of the Tarquins was ascribed by legend the establishment of the great Capitoline triad, Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva, which assumed the supreme place in Roman religion. Other additions were the worship of Diana on the Aventine Hill and the introduction of the Sibylline books, prophecies of world history, which, according to legend, were purchased by Tarquin in the late 6th century BC from the Cumaean Sibyl.
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Architecture - The Romans developed a new way to build arches\nBaths - People in Ancient Rome hung out at public baths like today's spas\nCaesar - A Caesar is a Roman emperor\nDogs - Romans kept dogs as pets just like we do\nEtruscan Art - Ancient Roman art form \nForum - The Roman Forum is where speeches were given and news was posted\nGladiators - Roman gladiators fought each other and lions in the Circus Maximus\nHeroes - Ancient Roman soldiers were written about as heroes if they were killed in battle\nImperialism - THe Romans wanted to rule the world\nJulius Caesar - The first Caesar of Rome, he was stabbed by his best friend and others\nKids - Kids in Ancient Rome wore tunics (like t-shirts) to their knees and played many games \nLatin - the language of Rome\nMinotaur - half-bull half-man who guarded a maze in an Ancient Roman myth\nNero - the craziest Roman emperor\nOctavian - Julius Caesar's son\nPlebians - The poor people of Rome\nQuintillian - A famous Roman philosopher\nRomulus and Remus - Twins who founded Rome in myth\nSaturn - The Roman god of the sun\nTheaters - Romans put on many plays at outdoor theaters\nUrauns - Roman god of the Sky\nVesuvius - a volcano that erupted in Pompeii in ancient Rome\nW - W was not a letter in the Romans' Latin alphabet - they used V instead\nX - X is the letter in Roman numerals that represents 10\nY - Y is a letter that Romans only used when writing Greek words\nZeus - a Greek god the Romans copied into Jupiter, the king of the gods
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One of the great things about the Romans vast movement across Europe and Africa was they knew the only way to conquer a people was to allow for the exchange of needs. They would allow the indigenous peoples to continue practicing their religions while teaching them improvements in education,farming,building. They built trade routes to new areas and some believe that the Romans quest into the British isles, brought about their movement into the Iron Age faster, thus propelling them ahead of many other lands at that time. Most legionaries where absorbed into the local society and many stayed to help " govern" after. you can find the Roman influence in many places throughout the world,right along side the Greeks,Gauls,Egyptians and Norseman.What they used as why to conquer and provide more tax payers, we use today in our own goverment. And we know what happend to Roman.......History always repeats its self.
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If you mean ancient Greece , it came into contact with many civilizations. That is Egyptians, Persians, Romans, and through Alexander the Greats empire even more like Skythians,Jews,Arabs and Indes and has affected all of them . Post ancient Greece and through the Byzantine empire which consisted mostly of Greeks and Romans came also into contact with Slavs,Huns, Mongols ,Ottomans and others.
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It would have eventually become so corrupt that it would have become weak, then it would have been taken over and fallen. Rome was about 3 things, sex, money/ power, and violence. It would have inevitably become weak, and when it fell it already was.
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Yes and no.  Even before the Romans occupied parts of Scotland, there was trade and people did migrate so certain terms and structures (particularly regarding commerce and trading) were influenced by Latin.\n\nDuring the Roman occupation, this influence became greater.\n\nIn general, almost all languages have evolved to take parts from others.  We use the term "Bon-appetitte" as if it were our own.  You can walk up to a stranger in Beging and ask, make typing gestures with your hand and say "PC?" and they will point you to a computer store or a library.  Amazing.\n\nWell, "Chow & adiós" !
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Rome didn't have any public schools. Most children \n went to private school or studied at home.Their subjects \n were reading, writing, and arithmetic. In many homes, \n the slaves taught the children. Before the age of \n fourteen, they studied Latin and Greek.
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Rome didn't have a particularly long life span.  The Roman Empire, as we know it, lasted only about 400 years, if that long.  The Egyptian Empire lasted several thousand years.\n\nI didn't check the dates, but that's close.  That being said, most governments last less than 200 years, which is why we consider the Romans to be long-lived.\n\nThe real answer to your question is assimilation.  When Romans conquered a people, they made them Roman citizens and incorporated them into the army.  They also gave the local people all of the benefits of Roman citizenry, such as aqueducts, amphitheaters, roads, baths, trade, protection, and republican government (form of self-rule). This made for loyal subjects rather than an insurgent populous.  Much easier to rule willing captives than disenchanted rabble.