The Rise of Rome: the Building of an Empire
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Rome was once one of the largest empires in the ancient world. As a huge political entity in human history, it once encompassed most of Europe and turned the Mediterranean into the inner lake of the empire. As the cornerstone of Western civilization, its political system, laws, and military ideas have influenced today. The civilization genes of most modern Western countries can be traced back to ancient Rome. The founding fathers of the United States used the Roman Republic as the founding concept of the country. The residents of the ancient Mediterranean were both afraid of Rome's invincible force and admired Rome's exquisite and elegant civilization system. From a small city on the Tiber River to a territory spanning three continents, the spirit of the Roman nation has engraved the country's rise: they considered themselves the rebirth of Troy and the descendants of Achilles, and their belief in revenge rooted in the myth of the nation's origin urged them to devote all they had to conquering Greece. Old enemies; the Romans admired the virtues of bravery and just laws, and sought glory and spread it to every colony and ally; but they were also flexible, pragmatic and self-interested, turning enemies into friends, and would not refuse to add embellishments to oracles as an excuse to launch just wars. Taking legends-stories-history as the axis, borrowing the pen and ink of the Romans to write about the origin of the expansion of the Roman Empire, and looking for the eternal source of the Roman spirit.
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