Why The Roman Civilization Lasted for So Long
By Wamakale David William Civilization in any context may refer to a complex human society usually characterized by the development of a political state, social stratification, unrivaled urbanization and a symbolic system of communication beyond natural spoken language (namely, a writing system). In modern historiography, ancient Roman Civilization and vice versa from the founding of the city of Rome in the 8th Century B.C.E to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th Century A. D particularly 476A.C.E. This complex period encompasses three stages of Roman civilization and its prominent existence over a period of 1117 years specifically from 614B.C.E to 476A.C.E. This period comprises of Rome as a Kingdom (753-509 B.C.E), the Roman Republic (509-27 B.C.E) and then the Roman Empire (27B.C.E-476A.C.E). Roman Civilization or ancient Rome begun as a result of an Italic settlement, traditionally dated to 753 B.C beside the River Tiber in the Italian peninsula. The settlemen...