How is the Roman Empire historically remembered today?

How is the Roman Empire historically remembered today?

your every day life is affected by it in one way or another

The birth of Western Europe.

A cautionary tale of hubris, and of the impermanence of power.

Gays.

>western Europe
>china
>America
any other takes on rome

I'd like to point this out before the thread goes too much further

Republic > Kingdom > Empire > Byzantines

what about HRE?

Where's the Ottomans?

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>""""""""""Republic""""""""""

literally in reverse order famm

what was the kingdom then?

Republic>Empire>Byzantines>Kingdom as far as storylines go.

As far as style however:
Byzantines>empire>republic>kingdom(we wuz greeks n shieet)

The republic sucked horsecock and didn't even function as a proper republic. Was literally worse distributed than US electoral college.

As founders of western civilization

Punic Wars were pretty fuggin neat

>Republic
Oligarchy*

Normie civ

ebin

>"""""""empi
*civil war starts

Umm sweetie that would be Greeks.

>republic didn't have civil wars

Romulus is Christ

Reminder that romans were not white
Carry on

>dumb sweetie-poster

No, it wouldn't be greeks. Romans decided what got into western civilization and what didn't.