Ancient Rome Quote Analysis

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I think that this quote is talking about how everything we learned about Rome leads to what happened in the empire.The reason I think that is because everything that we find for example buildings and other amazing findings connect to the empire.I found this quote, “Rome perished, yet it lived on.”This means that when Rome went down there were some pieces of it we found and we still use today.This other quote means that Rome was a big city and had lots of information that we could use to help us, “the city of Rome was the capital of the greatest empire the world had ever seen.” Those were some examples of what I think the quote means to me.
The Romans also had some good looking art that they had.The art the Romans had, helped us learn more

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