Romans created a civilization that has shaped subsequent world history for 2,000 years. The remains of vast building projects, including roads and bridges, enormous baths and aqueducts, temples and theaters, as well as entire towns in the North African desert, still mark Rome's former dominion. Cities throughout Western Europe stand on Roman foundations. Rome grew from a tiny settlement to an emerging empire while developing from monarchy to a republican form of government.

The land and environment of Italy provided the Romans with a secure home from which to expand. Roman republic started with their conflict against the Latins, who tried to break away from Rome and fought a war. At that time Romans feared the Samnites, another group of people and they stopped fighting with the Latins and offered them to join in. In doing so Roman

s came up with the idea of latin citizenship, and then gradually as the Romans expanded their territory to the whole of Italy after some internal conflicts everyone in Italy was granted Roman citizenship, slowly as the Romans defeated other lands in the Mediterranean basin, they never tried to impose their rule on captured lands but made them states, which were allowed to rule under the Roman umbrella by paying taxes and provide services to the Roman Army accepting the Roman superiority. And as time passed by at one point in history everyone under the Roman Empire got Roman citizenship.

Greeks on the hand didn't have any plans for expansion. The Greeks developed the idea of the oikos which is the family unit. The Greeks developed the polis which is the city-state. Each polis was independent and autonomous, and had its own political system. Greek polis's never considered expansion. When ever a polis was beginning to become over populated they would send out colonies instead of trying to expand the already existing polis, and the colonies that were setup were independent of the main polis. The Greeks, unlike the Romans, thus were politically disunified and were also spread over a large portion of the Mediterranean, but still did share a number of things in commo

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