Angelica Altamirano
Ramieen Brown
Sonia Iglesias
Frantz Guillaume
Elsie Xiangting Wang
Huarquidia Dominguez
Course Name: World Civilizations
Course Number: HUM 471 VAL
Course Section: MDA 1
Rome & its Empire
Ancient Rome developed from a small settlement on central Italy’s Tiber River into a kingdom
that at its greatest covered most of central Europe, Britain, western Asia, northern Africa and the
Mediterranean islands. Among the several legacies of Roman supremacy is the prevalent usage
of the Romance dialects (Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Romanian). Rome is the
catalyst of the modern Western alphabet, Annual calendar and the chief cause of Christianity as a
major world religion. After 450 years as a republic, Rome became an empire in the wake of
Julius Caesar’s rise and collapse in the first century B.C. The extensive and exultant supremacy
of its first ruler, Augustus, created a zenith of harmony and affluence. The empire’s deterioration
and plunge by the fifth century A.D. was one of the greatest studied collapses in the history of
anthropological development. Rome’s legions are amongst the most prominent fighting forces in
world history. Their initial spirit derived from the passion to preserve one’s own land. This
