How did the Roman heritage differently affect eastern and western Europe?
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See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire#Legacy for information on the legacy of the Roman Empire or just look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire \n\nGood Luck!!!
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First of all you need to remember that the Byzantine Empire was once part of the Roman Empire.  The BE was considered eastern or Oriental, with its capital in Constantinople (modern day Istanbul) whereas the RE is almost the epitome of Western (since it influenced all of Western Europe).  The BE empire was also much later, since it ended in 1453 whereas Rome was sacked in 476.  There are a whole host of other differences, it really depends if you're talking about the period of both  Western & Eastern (Byzantine) empires, of if you're looking at the full historical sweep of each empire
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From the fall of the Roman Empire to the Renascence.  It has been broken into smaller periods by different historians.\n\nFrom about 300 to 500 AD the great migrations of peoples into and through Europe lead to the end of the Pax Romana and the beginnings of the medieval ages.  From then until about 800 AD and the rule of Charlemagne was often called the Dark Ages.\n\nFrom about 800 AD to 1000 AD, the power of the Church increased and lead to Latin becoming a language for scholars and trade across most of the continent.  The next 300 years or so, which are often called the High Middle Ages saw the building of cathedrals,  an increase in trade and the beginnings of the Crusades.\n\nFrom 1300 AD to the Renaissance is considered the Late Middle Ages ushering a decline in the feudal power of the land holders and a rise of the merchants.
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Latin was quite common in Europe, as the language of the Roman Empire.\nHowever, as the empire spread across Europe, people in different places promounced the sounds differently.  While Rome was in control, people pretty much kept up the Latin for official use, but spoke the local versions (alled vernacular) in day-to-day use.  When Rome fell, people more and more got away from using "official" Latin, and used their own vernacular (which WAS Latin, just with slight variations).\n\nThe variations continued over time, and Latin broke down into the different "romance languages" of today" -- Spanish, Italian, French ("romance" comes from "Roman").  Each of these has a lot in common.\n\nBasically, all languages change over time and across regions.  If you've ever heard someone from Boston, or from the south, or from Brooklyn, you know there's lots of variation in how we pronounce sounds.  Also words change.  For example, we used to distinguish "then" from "than," but now fewer and fewer people do.  We also used to write "through," but more and more often you see "thru."  It's just the way living systems work, they change as the people who use them change.  When people stop using a form of the language it dies out.
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I think the main thing that characterizes the western world in comparison to the eastern is the idea of the sanctity of the individual.  Possibly because of Christianity, or possibly for more esoteric reasons, individualism has been more important that collectivism throughout western history.  Freedom is more important that tradition and structure.  These are basic judeo-christian values which spring from a belief in free will and the responsibility of the individual to live up to a moral standard that started with the Ten Commandments.  Coupled with curiosity, imagination, ambition and even greed, it has created much of what we consider to be western culture.
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For starters, the location.\nLanguage, Culture, Demographics, Government...everything about those countries are almost different.
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The Greek alphabet influenced the Roman or Latin one and it in turn influenced the Western alphabet.  There is no English alphabet, technically
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I am not from Romania but I find Romania to have a wonderful history and culture. Vlad Tepes was a very interesting kind, a person I do research on. Romanian is also a magnificent language and LOVE the accent.
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The Etruscans ruled most of Italy, including Rome, until they were overthrown by the Romans.  They were said to be very promiscuous, but that's by Greek and Roman standards, since they didn't leave any written accounts of themselves.  Based on their art, they appear to have been people who appreciated the arts and all forms of leisure.  Men and women seem to have eaten together, and women were included in society functions (that's why the Greeks and Romans thought so little of them).  They invented many things we now attribute to the Romans, such as arches and aquaducts.
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Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholics separated from one another in 1054. There are very few theological differences. The main difference is that the Eastern Orthodox Churches follow the Byzantine Rite and the Roman Catholic Church follows the Roman or Latin Rite.\n\nPope John Paul II said of the Eastern Orthodox Churches in Orientale Lumen, "A particularly close link already binds us. We have almost everything in common."
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rusian revolution changes\n\nhttp://www.museum.ru/mirror/vlmp/l_VLMPe.asp\n\n:> peace
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Yes and no.  The Byzantine Empire was the Eastern Roman empire before Rome fell in 476.  After the Western Roman Empire fell it became the Byzantine Empire until 1451 when the (damn I forget which turks but it wan't seljuks and it wasn't ottomans, it was in between) conquered Constantinople and renamed it Istanbul.
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Three factors:::\n\n(1) weak, short-lived emperors imposed, deposed, and  \n    murdered by the military.\n\n(2) invasions by Germanic tribes.\n\n(3) the loss of eastern territories to the Persians.\n\nThree factors fed into the transformation of the Mediterranean economy of antiquity into the European economy of the Middle Ages. The Germanic invasions of the later Empire were one of these factors; the other two were the civil wars of the 3rd century, and the Islamic invasions of the 7th century. \n\nAsk your teacher, he may give you 10/10...\n\nhttp://360.yahoo.com/jcbroogley
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The Etruscans are one of the few pre-Indo-European peoples to have survived to the Roman period.They remained a major power in Italy up to the fifth century BC. They lived somewhere in the upper Italy.\nThe language, written in a variety of the Greek alphabet, is very different from other Italian tongues.
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The differences were many, but the similarities are common too. The romans discovered concrete and mortor. Ancient roman homes were made of concrete, stone and mortor with wooden beams to support a roof of clay pottery like shingles. The homes were comfortable but also served as a defensive area against criminals and intruders. The homes were double level to afford tall outside walls difficult to scale. The windows open to the outside were few, The doorways were strong stone arcways proven to carry heavy load from above. From the inside the center is an open plaza with fountains and greenery and lavash structural designs of form to pleasure the eyes from all perspecives. Open and covered hallways and stairs gave access to the living quarters in predominantly fair weather and protection from storms and windy maritime afternoons.\nThe walls were white and clean and the tile floors are generously decorated with masterpiece mozaics. Statuetts of intimate family scenes scantilly dressed in linens, curved forms in contrast to the flat walls. The open channels  provided sound of running water flowing from the aqueduct which rivals our water delivery systems today. The common bath house had a heated shallow pool the size of four hot tubs. Family portraits are etched into the walls as permanent gifts to loved ones. Beauty and sensuality grace every turn of the living space, by sight, sound, and aroma.\n\nNeed I describe modern buildings: concrete foundation, heating and cooling systems, artificial lights, electronics, computers, televisions, stereos, closets, sheetrock, plumbing, tight spaces, carpets, rectangles, 90 degree corners inside and out, tar and composite roof, plastic and nylon incidentals , polyester, all materials most unnatural, except for the wood frames.\n\nThere you have it.
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The European nations didn’t just go to Africa to conquer it.  The nations of North Africa and Europe knew each other with explorers and conquers going both ways and all of this going back pre-Roman.  Central and Southern Africa was largely unknown.  What was know was seen as primarily wild and without unifying nations.  \n\nAs raw resources came into the awareness of various country, expansion began into these wild territories.  Through the years this continued and grew.  As the cultures involved came into increasing contact, abrasive relationships grew which as often as not led to hostilities.\n\nWhile today we can look back from what we consider a higher moral ground, that certainly was not the controlling policies of the day.
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Our alphabet is Greek-Latin, not -Latino.\nThe reason it is called "Western" culture is that all the disparate, separate elements that make it up came together to make a distinct culture in western Europe starting in about the 16th century AD.  The period from about the 15th to the 18th century was called the "Enlightenment" or "Renaissance."  It marked a rebirth of learning, science, and rationality following the religious and political oppressiveness of the Medieval period, a/k/a the "Dark Ages."