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Legacy of Rome Mindmap - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Christian missionaries converted many people within the empire
      - official religion
      - Christianity develop into a major religion
    - - prosper in the former lands
      - Germanic kings and queens are Christians
      - Byzantine Empire promoted Christianity in the East
  - - - gods
        in human form
      - Rituals
        
        It can reveal whether a specific action has a good or bad result
        
        designed to predict the future
    - - borrowed many of their gods from the Greeks
- - - - Rome’s most lasting and widespread legacy is its system of laws.
      - Reflected the Stoic ideals of duty and virtue. Stressed fairness and common sense.
    - - Senate
      - Make laws and represent the views of the people
  - - - Upper class & Lower class
    - - Large wealth gap
- - - - Bas-relief: slightly raised figures stand out against a flat background
- - - - a system of roads extended across much of the empire
      - Rome = the center of this network.
    - - merchants and traders could move their goods more easily
  - - - Light & Strong
      - poured into hollow walls or over curved forms
- - - - Ex: Aeneid, a well-known Roman epic
        
        Adventures of Aeneas.
      - modeled on Greek epics
        
        Odyssey
        
        Iliad
  - - - Greek philosophers
      - virtue, duty, and endurance
  - - - about writing and the artistic ideal of perfect beauty
      - blended Roman practicality with elements of Greek idealism.
- - - - Master of oratory