What are the similarities between ancient Roman houses and ours today?
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I would say the main similarity would be taxes.
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I believe the "ancients" that the above is refering to are the Greeks.  The Romans, more specifically Julius Cesar, instigated using the calander we use today, but borrowed the names of the moon phases from the Greeks when they conquered them.
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Here's a good website for ancient history.  It begins around the 5th or 6th century and goes through trends of this century.
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Well, history did not start with today's breakfast.\n\nThe components we use now for things like cans and pencil, were different in older times.  Language, however, carried to us today, the old materials used for those things.\n\nYes, long ago, cans were made of tin and pencils used lead (Romans for example). Aluminum is relatively very new.\n\nHey, the Romans used lead as wine bottles.  Some people say, that was one of the reasons the Roman empire fell.
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Try www.house.gov and www.senate.gov - see if they have historical info on the make-up of both bodies.  These are teh official House and Senate websites.
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There are way too many comparisons to even get started.  The economic circumstances as they relate to foreign trade and relations are nearly identical.  The "military advantage" over the conquered is identical.  The transformation of republic into totalitarian rule is identical.  To think that just because we repeat history but we throw more money and we have more technology so the outcome will be different is just ignorance and arrogance mixed...which the Romans had in spades just like us.
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A pool in roman style (a building style the Romans used). Look for pictures in the link below :)
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There probably are chimney pots but they may be cleverly disguised as turrets or something equally 'gothic'. When the houses of parliament were built, it was a 'state of the art' building, despite its old fashioned appearance - built in a very fashionable style at the time.
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Below is a wonderful resource for understanding the Roman Empire... specifically for children!\n\nBest wishes!
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how do you compare the lifestyle of today to your time period? \nwhat is your view on todays goverment compared to your time period?\ngas and economy?\nrace?\nwar?\nemployment?\nworld affairs?
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everything that has a beginning will have a ending. i think Rome and the U.S. have many similarities.
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Avignon: the pope used to be based their at a time. You also have Reims, where the kings were made kings ;)\nLove and kisses
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Today, Roman law is no longer applied in legal practice, even though the legal systems of some states like South Africa and San Marino and the legal system of the United States state of Louisiana are still based on the old Ius Commune. However, even where the legal practice is based on a code, many rules deriving from Roman law apply: No code completely broke with the Roman tradition. Rather, the provisions of Roman law were fitted into a more coherent system and expressed in the national language. For this reason, knowledge of Roman law is indispensable to understand the legal systems of today. Thus, Roman law is often still a mandatory subject for law students in civil law jurisdictions.\nI hope that helps.
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Most likely no.  On both continental groups Eurasia/Afica nad the Americas there were many similarities in technology and scientific process.  This jsut shows that if we as humans really need (or want) something, that we will find a way to get it.  Every great ancient culture was great because they tackled the problems that everyone needed solved.  Writing happened on both continental groups becaus a need to archive history in a condensed form, the same way as the compess, boat and agriculture developed, out of a universla need.
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There really isn't 'more' now than there was. Just in this day and age because of instant news access 24/7 we get to see it and are more open about it is all.  Think about it... the roman empire was very 'wicked' indeed from what we know about them.  In our times it's just a little bit more visable and accessable than it was.  And we now will talk openly about some things that used to taboo.
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I was watching the history of the Roman Empire on (of course) the History Channel yesterday. And it basically was the story of one dysfunctional or corrupt or tyrannical Emperor after the other (and the power hungry women who loved them) and I got to thinking - why do we expect so much from our modern day politicians? Clearly the Roman emperors had (in a joint sense) every bad quality a person put in power could ever have - they often womanized, the often killed (some killed a lot), and they often took advantage. In short, they mostly just took advantage of their positions of power. They got the six-on-the-side-lovers, the special in-palace-running-water, and the right to exercise their natural and dominant tendencies to be in charge (I learned that Emperor Claudius had no such tendancies - he hid behind a curtain after Emperor Gaius was killed by his own guards and was then literally forced to be the new Emperor).\nSo here we are in this modern “civilized” society (my kids have a Sony Play Station) and we expect so much from our representatives. We demand their integrity and honesty. And we’re so outraged when they get caught playing Emperor. But why? On the basis of what? Has man’s morality really evolved all that much since the Roman Empire? Wasn’t it just a handful of decades ago that a guy maned Hitler tried to forcibly and violently take over the world? So our guys (and I live in America but your guys in other so called civilized nations should easily follow the paradigm) are suddenly going to change from historical trends and not only really CARE about the people, but care enough to focus on the people’s needs and not their own? What a joke. When politicians get caught taking bribes, smoking pot, killing someone (how many people do you know personally who die under mysterious circumstances?) or shacking up with their sixteen year old intern, it’s nothing but the HISTORICAL NORM. They’re just following suit. It’s only by the sheer fact that they’re no longer held above the law that they don’t OPENLY engage in the Roamesq things of the past. In fact when they do get caught they seen to find ways to use their positions to get out of trouble anyway. I wonder what would happen if a guy named Rocco Fabricchi the plumber from Brooklyn ran his beat up Toyota in to his neighbor’s fence and then said, “Oops I took some sleeping pills and don’t remember a thing.” What about if you ran your car off a bridge with your brother’s former secretary in side and left her to die? You do nothing for nine hours and they charge you with nothing but “leaving the scene of an accident”? Would they just charge you and me with “leaving the scene of an accident”? Or would you get at least a vehicular or negligent homicide charge? Well you get the picture. The new age politicians are doing just like the Roman Emperors - they’re just doing it quietly in the background with a nice custom made suit. We need o learn from human history and stop expecting so much.
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I asked a question similar to this several weeks ago.  When looking at the similar patterns of history (such as the fall of Rome), it is apparent that the US will fall just as the Romans did.  \n\nAlthough many people in the US are unable to see how close they are to the greed, ego-centricism, denial and arrogance of ancient Roman culture, perhaps it will become more apparent when the society starts to fail and becomes lost.