United States of America formally known as Modern Day Roman.?

Question

It's funny to me how so much of the American culture resembles Rome. For instances the Romans took over cultures and made it their own, the U.S. does/did the same. The Romans named a temple Capitol for they worshipped the God Jupiter in on Capitoline, the U.S. has the Capitol building in Washington D.C. There are various cities, landmarks, etc. named after the famous Roman politican Cicero. The Romans really didn't have a architecture of their own, so what they did was used multiculturalism (Greek, Asian, African, etc.) to create monuments, structures, etc. U.S. today does exactly that. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. Not to mention amusement. Both Rome and the U.S. use deadly sports (whether it's gladiatorism, football, boxing, wrestling, which came from the Greco-Roman era, even executions of criminals.) What separates us as Americans (even America derived from the name of the Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci 1454-1512) from the Romans?

Correct me if I'm wrong, the U.S. has went to war with certain countries and Americanized them. Also like Rome at it's time, the U.S. is the major power of it's time. So any other country doesn't matter.

Answer 1

Rome took over through war and military campaign mostly, we mostly took over through economic and cultural affiliation.

Also, when was the last time an audience demanded the execution of the defeated team in football, or televise an execution?

Answer 2

When the Romans built their empire, they Romanized the people that they conquered. When the United States conquered the North American continent, they (we) made no attempt to Americanize the indigenous people. We simply killed them or shoved them out of the way to make room for the American settlers. That is one major difference between The American empire and the Roman empire.

Answer 3

Oh bitter one, take heart for many country fell into the same culture cliche. History dictates that countries have a time limit before they become top heavy with population, land aggression and greed. Then comes the 'decline' of the civilization. It is the inhabitants of these countries that make the decline possible so blame yourself and all the people that allow brutal games and greed in government to exist.
Spartawo...

Answer 4

sure. different than we've discovered from their blunders. on the instant we use money quite than miltary war of words to triumph over different international places. the international economic enterprise, WTO, and IMF (all 3 usually ruled by way of US hobbies) confirm different international places do no longer pass against us. in the event that they do, we deliver interior the CIA to start up a coup or an assassination. whilst that fails, we use the armed forces.

Answer 5

you make it seem like the US is the only country that has any cultural ties to Rome

Answer 6

We are Americans?