Cultural Diffusion In Rome

Decent Essays
Mekejla Bushati
Mr.Linton
Global 9
3 January 2017

The spread of ideas, technologies and cultural beliefs from one group of people to another is known as cultural diffusion. Cultural Diffusion helped people learned how certain things are done and learn things that they did not know. They learned things such as trade and different types of religions. Cultural diffusion helps all different types of areas and cultures combine and develop into one. Rome has used cultural diffusion to learn things and adapt to them and make it there own way of things. Cultural diffusion is important to history because it shows how things were structured and developed.

One way Rome expanded upon knowledge from previous civilization is how Rome adapted to

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