WORLD HISTORY

Rome

The city of Rome was initially located in central Italy, but the empire expanded geographically to cover the entire region of the Mediterranean basin as well as much parts of the Western Europe. In its great extent, the empire continued to spread from the current day’s northern England to parts of Southern Egypt as well as from the Atlantic coast to the Persian Gulf shores. Rome in the early centuries was specifically influenced by the Etruscan civilization that was very powerful and located in its north. It acquired many aspects from this civilization which impacted greatly on Romans culture. With the expansion of Roman’s reach, it came to one to one contact with the Greeks.

The Greeks then on impacted on the Romans life and also played an important role. However, the Greeks too gave the Greek culture their slant and gave them a new grandeur that is seen in Romans and remains part of them throughout the existence of the empire.

            The Roman Empire covered more than 2000 cities (Wild, 2006). Each of these sites ran their affairs just as any other community and was part of the main building block of the whole of the empire. The large coverage of the entire part of Britain was a major aspect that determined the power of the Romans especially regarding influencing the culture the language, the architecture and also the philosophical way of thinking. The British Isles to date have a Roman name, and even after the Roman Conquest, the Roman language was still the language of administration and religion.

The vast coverage of a large geographical area also meant that Rome was the central force that brought order and unity to Britain that was never seen before. Before the establishment of the Roman Empire, Britain was in a desperate state in that the people did not have a sense of national unity and identity beyond their native tribes. With the wake of the Roman occupation, each Briton was only aware of their Brutishness. This awareness was the aspect that defined them as being different from those who came after them and an aspect that colour their national mythology. That is the Welsh would perceive themselves as being the original heirs of Britain while the Irish and Scots were proud of not being conquered by the Romans.

 An essential legacy of the Rome was not simply its agriculture, nor its roads, nor its cities, nor its language but the bold and simple fact that each generation of the British inhabitant managed to follow Roman’s way of life (Huskinson, 2013).  From the start of the mid second century BC, the culture of the Greek was mainly ascendant, despite the tirades against the Hellenised culture that had softening effects. During the time of Augustus, the household slaves of the Greek were the young Romans especially girls. The sculptures of the Greek adorned the Hellenistic landscape gardening on the villas or Palatine, and much of the Roman cuisine was mainly from the Greeks. An individual could attend to both the gods of the Romans which represented his Roman identity as well as his faith. Most children were home schooled. Education started around the age of six, and both boys and girls were required to learn the basics of counting, writing, and reading.

Empire Augustus was the greatest leaders of the Roman Empire. In his reign, Augustus achieved a lot. He did a lot in expanding the empire and even added parts of Egypt, the whole of central Europe, Northern Spain and eventually invaded Germany. At home, he spearheaded the conservative approach that made use of Rome’s past as a blueprinting in future activities.

Persia

Acheamenes established the initial centralized state of Persia. At around 700 BC, the ruler slowly conquered Babylon, Western Turkey, Egypt and made several failed attempts of conquering Greece. The ancient empire saw the Persians getting control of a great extent. The Persian Empire stretched from India to Europe from 550 B.C.E and ended in 331 B.C.E. a series of monarchs ruled the Persian Empire. The empire of Persia comprised of an extensive set of peoples and states that were under the ruler ship of an oligarchy or a monarch who were a small group of elites.

Though these leaders gained power through conquering the local people, the empire was characterized by peaceful ruling as well as engaging in extensive trading covering the Middle East. Cyrus the Great, the Persians King, in the 550 B.C.E successfully conquered Medes and worked towards uniting the Iranian people for the very first time (Moghissi, 2007). He expanded the Persian territory to the west and gained control in most of the essential trade routes that passed through Morden Iran.

The geographical location of Persia was covered by flaming hot deserts and high towering mountains with a central plateau between the Indus River Valley and the Tigris-Euphrates River Valley. The high mountain peaks hindered Persia from engaging in trading activities with its neighbours. Cyrus worked towards finding access to the seaports which was a vital aspect in expanding the development of the Persian Empire. Cambyses his son further expanded the Persian Empire through benevolent conquests to Egypt.

The Persian culture is characterized by a sense of nationality, religion which is Islam and the Arabic language. The adoption of the Islam culture meant the replacement of the native religion of Zoroastrian. However, the Persians held to their original identity through literature, arts, and language (Kellner, 2003).

References

Huskinson, J. (2013). Experiencing Rome: culture, identity and power in the Roman Empire. Routledge.

Kellner, D. (2003). Media culture: Cultural studies, identity and politics between the modern and the post-modern. Routledge.

 Moghissi, H. (Ed.). (2007). Muslim diaspora: Gender, culture and identity (Vol. 2). Routledge.

Wild, J. P. (2006). Loanwards and roman expansion in North‐West Europe. World Archaeology, 8(1), 57-64.

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