HUMA 1770 Lecture 1: huma 1770 essay 1 page 5
20 Nov 2017
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Army basecamps surrounding the borders and this established new cities with their expansion (mattingly, imperialism, power, and identity: experiencing the roman empire). Citizens would move into these new cities and integrate with the local population, thus maintaining roman ideology (mattingly, imperialism, power, and identity: experiencing the. Their extensive networks of roads were mainly for the purpose of easy transportation of their armies which allowed them to navigate within the empire faster and more efficiently (joshua, ancient rome). Oftentimes the conquered nations were able to maintain their way of life and follow their independent religious practises because the romans believed this would ensure stability in the new colonies (joshua, ancient rome). Also, because the romans were polytheistic it made it easy to accommodate additional religions and assimilate into the. Romans because it was monotheistic and thus many christians faced persecution and had to relocate to areas such as eastern germany or southern russia in modern times (joshua, ancient.
