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Roman Legacy Research Paper

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"Rome fell but it's legacy lived on." Like this quote says, there was a day when Rome had its fall. But Rome had many legacies, legacies that impact many aspects of what we see today. Engineering, art, philosophy, language and many more Roman legacies have influenced every inch of the world today. However, the Roman Legacy that I believe has had the greatest impact on today's society is the legacy of Roman language and writing. It's true that engineering and art have highly impacted today's technology and architecture. It's also true that without philosophy,countries today like The United States wouldn't have been as successful without their strong governments impacted by Roman Legacies. But Roman language has not only impacted today's technology, …show more content…

The list of early Roman poets is chronological...Livius Andronicus
(c.284-204 B.C.) was a major Roman literary figured known as the father of Roman literature, introducing Rome to Greek epic, lyric and drama...Quintus Ennius (239-169 B.C.) has been called founder of Roman poetry, writing in many genres...Gaius Lucilius was born in c. 180
B.C. He is considered the father of the genre of Roman satire"
(ancient history.about.com). This piece of textual evidence also helps prove the fact that the legacy of Roman Language has had the greatest impact on the world today. This quote states one of the most important
Roman poets of all Roman history. The reason why these poets help give a greater impact to the legacy of Roman writing because without these poets, roman writing wouldn't develop as much and wouldn't influence the English literature of writing. "Latin Root- anima and English
Word-animal...Latin Root-civil and English Word-civic...Latin
Root-portare and English Word-portable" (History Alive,15). This …show more content…

The influences of the legacy of Roman Language and Writing are also seen everywhere today. The Roman letters used in the Roman number system are used in today's English alphabet. And people read the
English alphabet everywhere and everyday. A quote says,"Finally, we still use Roman numerals. The Romans used a system of letters to write numbers. The Roman numerals I,V,X,L,C,D, and M represent
1,5,10,50,500,and 1,000 in the Roman number system. You may have seen
Roman numerals used on clocks, sundials, and the first pages of books.
You might also spot Roman numerals on buildings and in some movie credits to show the year in which they were made" (History Alive,15).
This piece of textual evidence helps support the claim because like the quote says, the Roman Numerals helped us get the literature of
English. After the development of Roman numerals, the English literature system was developed and now everywhere we see we have
English literature—billboards, books, papers, technology, and more.
All aspects of today that have English literature were impacted by the
Legacy of Roman Language, therefore supporting the

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