The Roman Empire had a lot of influence on western societies today even though the Empire has been gone for a long time. The quote, “Rome never fell: it became something greater, an idea that achieved immortality” we can see that the Roman culture had survived, which in a sense means that the Empire also survived. Here are a few examples of important cultural ideas from Rome that still exist today. First of all, there is the Roman language, Latin. Since the Roman Empire conquered many different regions of Europe, their language was spread and mixed with the native languages of the areas they conquered. For example, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian all are derived from Latin. Other languages such as English also have many
