2007-12-11 02:59:15 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
They spread order and classical culture throughout the world. They taught various things to a large portion of the world.
Think about the construction that occurred during that period. Hadrian's wall, the coliseum, aqueducts.
2007-12-11 03:08:07 · answer #1 · answered by Yun 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What have the Romans ever done for us?
To wit:
REG: Yeah. All right, Stan. Don't labour the point. And what have they ever given us in return?!
XERXES: The aqueduct?
REG: What?
XERXES: The aqueduct.
REG: Oh. Yeah, yeah. They did give us that. Uh, that's true. Yeah.
COMMANDO #3: And the sanitation.
LORETTA: Oh, yeah, the sanitation, Reg. Remember what the city used to be like?
REG: Yeah. All right. I'll grant you the aqueduct and the sanitation are two things that the Romans have done.
MATTHIAS: And the roads.
REG: Well, yeah. Obviously the roads. I mean, the roads go without saying, don't they? But apart from the sanitation, the aqueduct, and the roads--
COMMANDO: Irrigation.
XERXES: Medicine.
COMMANDO #2: Education.
REG: Yeah, yeah. All right. Fair enough.
COMMANDO #1: And the wine.
COMMANDOS: Oh, yes. Yeah...
FRANCIS: Yeah. Yeah, that's something we'd really miss, Reg, if the Romans left. Huh.
COMMANDO: Public baths.
LORETTA: And it's safe to walk in the streets at night now, Reg.
FRANCIS: Yeah, they certainly know how to keep order. Let's face it. They're the only ones who could in a place like this.
REG: All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
XERXES: Brought peace.
REG: Oh. Peace? Shut up!
2007-12-11 03:31:04 · answer #2 · answered by Hera Sent Me 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I "Ditto" your first responder. And would add the following:
Their "Pax Romana"(the Roman Peace, I think it means; watch me be corrected)endured for centuries.
One thing that doesn't seem to me to be often mentioned, is a common, truly great international language, Latin, to the entire not only Mediterranean, but Western/Eastern(?) worlds.
And probably the most impressive contribution of all, a legal system that forms the basis of all Western law.
Undoubtedly, contributions second only to perhaps that of the Greeks.
Wotan
2007-12-11 03:29:25 · answer #3 · answered by Alberich 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They built the first network of roads across Europe.
2007-12-11 03:13:36 · answer #4 · answered by Hobilar 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋