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"Glory And Greatness": The Contact And Corresponding Impact Of Greece And Rome From 3 To 2 Century B. C

Posted on:2012-08-31Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X Q FuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2215330335475836Subject:World Ancient History
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Contacts between civilizations will bring a corresponding impact each other, and even lead to social structural change, then change the historical process. Both Greek and Roman civilization in the illustrious history of their exposure to a series of events triggered by the relationship between Greece and Rome are constantly changing, until the respective characteristics of each other in varying degrees of relationships due to remodeling.Choice 3-2 century B.C is consider this period Greek and Roman face confrontation.the main part of the article is divided into three parts. The first chapter describes the events and phenomena, between Rome and Greece, a series of indirect, direct, and some of the phenomenon of war, while Greece is difficult to determine its own destiny, in the war wavering position, always in a state of defeat Rome conquered Greece did not encounter much resistance. On the other hand, Rome has been the impact of all aspects of Greek culture.Chapter II of Greece and Rome was behind the incident was a preliminary analysis of the situation. Rome's victory, the city plays a decisive role in the system. Mainly rely on the military conquest of the Roman military and political high degree of integration. Rome can make the practical benefit of foreign wars of conquest. City also provides a powerful unifying force. Roman political means relying on flexible, through the civil rights and province system to maintain control of the vast region. The Greek city-states, although based upon the traditional way of dealing with internal affairs, but all too often surrounded by powerful neighbor of interfering in the internal political chaos. This is not to say that Greece than in Rome, there are gaps in resources, but in Greece failed to integrate powerful. Meanwhile, in the prevailing political environment also has a consolidation trend in Greek society, but ultimately failed to save Greece. The success of Rome's decline because the Greek city-state politics.Chapter III from their respective social structures, institutional changes are due to several aspects of the analysis to explain their historical fate. Is.a city with political, but the results are quite different. Lead to a large extent the reason for this difference lies in the different social structure, the Greek city-states of the Community is more, this is a unique with the horizontal dependence, city-states actors, but there are various state international relations, the objective maintain the existence of an independent city, independent city-states and the principle of hazard possible to resist, and even long-standing support of the aristocratic faction of the nobles to send other states, liberals support the struggle of democracy in fact played a stabilizing system of the Greek city-states role. The Roman society was an independent city-state; it changes the resistance to small. The vertical structure of the Roman Republic is interdependent. It is the relationship between the conquered lands vertically. Makes the Greek "polis parochialism" has a more stable compared to the maintenance of the Roman city-state system of social stability. However, in Greece and Rome did not exist between the constraints, the real world only knows victory; it becomes all the rules of the strong rules. System itself does not have long-lasting features, the new situation brought to the Roman system of internal changes induced fission, and Greece was destroyed from the outside, follow from this imposed change. The system has to maintain the ideology of the city-state system; the final change means no recovery possible.
Keywords/Search Tags:Greece, Rome, impact, city-states, innovation
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