Blog Entry #7: How did the Romans manage to effectively combine their whole empire into one unit?

The Romans started off very small. As they began to experience other foreign countries, they began to realize that they could make their nation into something much greater. It’s so happened that Greece was one of Rome's neighbor's. Greece had already had a strong developed nation. Rome struggled to keep their survival. The Greeks superiority affected the Romans, inspiring them to be superior and strong as well. They then captured their cities and Rome became superior to the Greeks. They tutored their children. Greeks were more cultured and the Romans adopted their ways. As they got new and greater ideas from the Greeks there was a drastic change in their empire into one unit. The Roman character began to dissolve, banking, capitalism and self-indulgence. There were two main classes, the wealthy and the very poor or average person. They became a whole new country. They had everything together and made traveling to and from Rome easier, and therefore trade was much easier, and therefore Rome became wealthier. Good for military, originally built for army-for soldiers and for supplies, unity; such a huge and difficult geographical placing: culture to go through an entire empire. Which combined everything into one effective method for the Romans.