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Position:Home>History> Why does all of American curiculuum, economy, law, and culture base itself on RoQuestion: Why does all of American curiculuum, economy, law, and culture base itself on Roman Ancient times!? Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: America was, about 100 years ago, made up of Spanish, English, Scottish, Irish, Italian, German, Chinese, and African roots!. 5 out of 8 of these are former Roman provinces, so it is unsuprising that when these divergent Roman cultures reconverged, they appeared bizarrely similar to Rome!. In addition, the imperial, republican majesty of Rome greatly appealed to Americans, who looked at a continent about the size of the Roman empire!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Our educational system and the curriculum was originally taken from Europe, (England to be more precise) and their view of history and academics began with the Greeks and Romans as the start of classical studies!. For some reason the Chinese culture is ignored by western civilization, even though it's culture and history are much older than either the Romans or the Greeks!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Because the root of those things in the modern Western world comes from there!. They started the systems that are expressed in modern economics!. They formed the philosophical foundations for our laws and the interpretation of them!. Out culture stems from the works of the Greeks and Romans!.Www@QuestionHome@Com It doesn't!. There is equal influence of ancient Greece, Jerusalem, and two millennium of European and world history!. Much of the modern world we know would be incomprehensible to ancient Greeks or Romans: antibiotics, air conditioning, modern travel, food, MTV, Internet, etc!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |