Musa Guliyev
Ancient and Medieval History
Section A
03.10.2015
What was Romanization and how did it happen? Roman republic and Roman Empire had huge territories and there were a lot of roman colonies on those lands. Having such huge lands required a lot of power and strategies to maintain stability on those lands. Of course, Roman army was strong enough to defeat any threat that created troubles for the empire. However, military power was not the only aspect of protecting stability. Roman army brought roman governance, along with roman culture to the lands they occupied. People who lived on those lands tended to obtain some things from roman culture. This process is called Romanization. According to J. Webster, the German historian Mommsen initially begat the expression "Romanizing,"
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Usually this process went on without any interferences. People experienced different sort of assimilation during different time periods. This process happened unequally, because of different factors such as wealth of locals and control period of romans. However, in some cases Romans gave it directions. To begin with, colonies were focuses of the Roman lifestyle advancing Rome, the sovereign and Roman practices. Roman people in colonies had effects on local people. For instance, Lugdunum, established in 43 BC at the junction of the Rhône and Saône, was at the street 's heart framework in Gaul, the region 's capital of Narbonensis. Second, the grants of citizenship to the higher class as well as to auxiliaries and their families offered expression to the benefits of taking up with Rome. They were