Romaniization: The Rise And Fall Of The Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was one of the most effective civilizations of all time. Their culture, lifestyle, religion and the s tate burecratic system could be considered as a new order for that time. Those values were spread all over the lands that they occupied.

Apparently, the history of this process began with these expansions of the other territories.

The Roman culture influenced many countries and societies.The Roman Empire conquered Europe and even stretched overseas to Africa. Moreover, the Roman civilization even reached into Asia as well. The Romans left behind a bounty of cultural values. The Romans were doers and they were very passionate about practising and creating new things while increasing their patriotism and religious faith.

In order to get a deep understanding of the term and the process, in the next paragraph I will mostly bring examples from the authors who wrote about Romanization.

Romanization-as quoted from Haverfield is the process by which roman provinces adopted Roman manners, customs, religion and etc. There are some different views in academia about this process. For instance, this term also could defined as a question of manner.As a matter of fact , those people who face romanization began to act like a Roman, wear like Roman, educating like Roman and fight like a Roman. The definition of the W. Harris could be considered as a proove for this statement.While he defines the process by which “inhabitands come to be and to think of themselves as Romans” (Curchin, 2004).

They began to move towns (Haverfield, 1923) wear roman style clothes adopt roman names, language. Romanization was superficial, it changed people and make them to internalise roman values. Could we considers these changes as ancient roman sources said civilizations of barbarians or its a different thing. Let’s define. Webster

Not many empires had such profound impact on conquered places, one the reason of roman empire’s power was Romanization.

During last century Romanization got much scholarly attention. Now I’ll indicate some of the results of research that conducted in this topic. German scholar

Theodor Mommsen was of those who discuss this issue and argued that “cultural adoption throughout the western part of the empire was a natural results of the superior position held by roman over virtually any west Iron Age civilization. (Mommsen, 1885, p.225)The leaders at that time

As I understood, the romans first showed their system and culture to those people and they figure out that its is higher that their own that is why Romanization easily accepted in more places.

As I understood from the reading materials the Romanization affected mostly the upper class. Elite children were raised and educated in Rome at those times. far from their families and they began to live like a roman and after all they becoming a roman citizen. Some sources indicate this process as civilization of barbarians but the actor that mentioned above confused us. There are also some other approaches to