Topic 3 -- Early World History, Level I

[ Show ]

Support VoyForums

[ Shrink ]

VoyForums Announcement: Programming and providing support for this service has been a labor of love since 1997. We are one of the few services online who values our users' privacy, and have never sold your information. We have even fought hard to defend your privacy in legal cases; however, we've done it with almost no financial support -- paying out of pocket to continue providing the service. Due to the issues imposed on us by advertisers, we also stopped hosting most ads on the forums many years ago. We hope you appreciate our efforts.

Show your support by donating any amount. (Note: We are still technically a for-profit company, so your contribution is not tax-deductible.) PayPal Acct: Feedback:

Donate to VoyForums (PayPal):

[ Login ] [ Contact Forum Admin ] [ Main index ] [ Post a new message ] [ Search | Check update time | Archives: 1 ]

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Date Posted: 14:09:40 03/07/02 Thu
Author: Denise Stone
Subject: Topic 3

Rome was so succesful for so long because of their well oraganized government and the many reformers who directly contributed to Rome's uprising. For example, at the insistance of the plebians they wrote down all their laws on something we call the "Twelve Tables". This helped bring order to their republic and temporary peace between the patricians and the plebians. Also, they had one of the most powerful militaries in the world. Phalanxes didn't work so they tried legions and brought up children by teaching them that their city comes fist and only themselves after. Their downfall was a variety of reasons- Rome lost power over some city-states, too many people and not enough food (Hannibal destroyed many of the fields as he ravaged throughout the land), nobles gained power which meant the assembly of tribunes and administration had less power, and no one took care of the fields because there was too many men off to protect the expanding Republic. Also,the Romans possibly didn't even realize just how powerful they had become and after a while they were so at ease with their life style they kind of took it for granted and didn't see any of their flaws. This directly relates to Modern civilizations because take for example the United States. We are in our own "Golden Age" right now but it seems to me we are so busy helping war or ill stricken countries that we are not bothering to help ourselves. Romans were gentle rulers over the city-states they conquered but they always put themselves first in times of peril. That is what we need to do or we will experience our own downfall. We cannot get too full of ourselves as the Romans did.They didn't even realize all that they had until they lost it.The United States I hope is smart enough to avoid a similar fate.

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]