¿CUAL fue el LEGADO de la ANTIGUA ROMA? — Transcript

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1. 0:09The civilization of Ancient Rome had a lasting legacy in world history The legacy to
2. 0:14Ancient Rome is still felt today in Western culture in areas such as government, law
3. 0:19, language, architecture, engineering, and religion. Effective frontan Roman
4. 0:24inventions or innovations that continued in use or were later rediscovered to serve as
5. 0:30models in virtually every aspect of human society from the mundane to the sublime.
6. 0:37Roman laws and government continue to serve as a model for modern countries the structure
7. 0:43of the republic of Rome in which the branches of the executive, legislative and
8. 0:47judicial government were separated so that no branch had exclusive power and each would provide
9. 0:52a control and balance to the others influenced the writers of the us constitution
10. 0:57who create a government based on a system of checks and balances to ensure that
11. 1:02no part of the government became too powerful, the executive power of rome during the
12. 1:07republic were the consuls the legislative were the assemblies that made the laws
13. 1:12and the Roman senate that decreed them and the judges were the judicial power, the popular assembly served
14. 1:19to vote for consuls in the same way that ordinary people vote for
15. 1:24elected officials today, Roman law had a significant influence on
16. 1:29modern laws in many countries legal ideas such as judgment By jury, civil rights,
17. 1:35contracts, personal property, legal wills and corporations were influenced
18. 1:40by Roman law and the Roman way of looking at things, the twelve tables addressed the
19. 1:46specifics of the law as well as the penalties they Laws initiated by Roma as the Roman government
20. 1:51also served as a model for the founding fathers of the United States of America.
21. 1:57The Roman legacy also includes more tangible things such as works of art and architecture
22. 2:01as well as marvels of engineering, these follow the same pattern and many of the common elements
23. 2:07that are taken for granted today are invented or developed by the Romans many modern
24. 2:12buildings borrow Roman elements of design and structure, the Romans used the
25. 2:17Greek elements and added their own ideas and in doing so found new ways to improve the
26. 2:22structure of the buildings these ideas included the use of arches, vaults and domes while the
27. 2:28Greeks had experimented with the wavy arch expanding what they had learned to build
28. 2:33the first domes the romans took the domes to new heights when hadrian commissioned
29. 2:38Agrippa to build the pantheon in rome 'the romans developed a form of concrete that
30. 2:44was both light and strong they poured the mix in hollow walls or on curved shapes
31. 2:49to create strong vaults in the concrete It is one of the most common building materials
32. 2:54today and builders still use the Roman method of pouring concrete into molds, Romans
33. 3:01also built aqueducts throughout their empire as a way to bring water to cities,
34. 3:08Romans are especially famous For the quality of their roads in 312 BC- they
35. 3:14built the first of many roads called the Appian Way and ran to the southeast of Rome,
36. 3:19while other ancient civilizations paved the streets long before the
37. 3:24Romans the Romans but the first in connecting cities with a vast road network.
38. 3:31The first fire brigade was formed under the command of the general and politician Marcos Licinio Crasso
39. 3:36whose motivation was far from being altruistic, his firefighters responded instantly to a
40. 3:42burning house or building but could do nothing until Crassus will negotiate with the owner
41. 3:47if the The owner agreed to sell the property to Crassus for the price that he established the
42. 3:52fire would go out otherwise the building would burn, the emperor nero based on this idea without
43. 3:58extortion to create his own fire brigade the vigiles and the model kept
44. 4:03his Successors, the Roman police were instituted under Augustus Caesar and were known as urban cohorts
45. 4:10patrolling the streets of the city day and night, maintaining order, applying the law, and
46. 4:16presenting themselves to a prefect who served the same purpose as a modern
47. 4:21Rome police chief. - it also had its own sanitation department to manage the
48. 4:26city's waste the first sewers were built in rome in 750 BC shortly after
49. 4:32its founding and the great sewer system was built the maximum sewer in it 600
50. 4:39BC- the city's sanitation problems were handled by workers who
51. 4:43cleaned latrines collected waste in the streets and maintained the sewers.
52. 4:50The modern western calendar is a refinement of the Julian calendar that
53. 4:54was introduced by Julius Caesar The common tradition of starting the year on January 1
54. 5:00was a convention established in ancient Rome The modern seven-day week follows the
55. 5:05Greco-Roman system of planetary hours in the that one of the seven celestial bodies of the solar
56. 5:10system that were known in ancient times Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, the Sun, Venus, Mercury and the Moon is
57. 5:16reigned every day Romance languages ​​retain the original Latin names for
58. 5:21each day of the week except Sunday which was renamed Dies dominicus lord's day
59. 5:27under Christianity, the 12-hour clock is a time convention popularized by
60. 5:32the Romans in which 24 hours a day are divided into two periods, the Romans divided
61. 5:38the day into twelve hours equal to am and pm, the Romans also began the practice
62. 5:44that is used throughout the world today of a new day that begins at midnight, the Roman
63. 5:49numerals continued They aron as the main way of writing numbers in Europe until the
64. 5:5414th century when they were largely replaced in common use by Hindu Arabic numerals
65. 6:00however the Roman numeral system continues to be used widely in certain
66. 6:05formal and minor contexts such as clock faces currencies and generational suffixes.
67. 6:14The Latin spoken by the Romans spread throughout much of Western Europe during the time
68. 6:19of the Roman Empire, despite the decline of the Western Roman Empire Latin continued to flourish in
69. 6:24the social and economic environment very different from the Middle Ages mainly because it became In
70. 6:29the official language of the Roman Catholic Church, in Western and Central Europe and in parts of
71. 6:34North Africa, Latin retained its high status as the main vehicle of communication
72. 6:39for the scholarly classes throughout the Middle Ages and the language later spread
73. 6:45long after the fall of the empire through Roman literature, many languages ​​evolved
74. 6:51from Latin these languages ​​are called Romance languages ​​include French, Spanish, Portuguese,
75. 6:57Italian and Romanian all languages ​​that descend from Latin are spoken by more than 920 million
76. 7:03people as a mother tongue and for 300 million as a second language mainly in America,
77. 7:09Europe and Africa the Romance languages s are official co-official or are used significantly
78. 7:16in 72 countries around the world, in addition, Latin has had a great influence on grammar
79. 7:21as well as in the lexicon of West Germanic languages, romantic words constitute
80. 7:2759, 20 and 14 per cent respectively. hundred of vocabularies in English German and Dutch.
81. 7:37Rome developed or invented many of the most popular foods that
82. 7:42modern diners enjoy such as pasta dishes, cheese dishes, fish and especially
83. 7:47any meal accompanied by a sauce.They also developed the concept of
84. 7:51fast food by establishing Thermopolia places where something
85. 7:56hot a Termopolio was a simple restaurant usually located on a street or in
86. 8:01the market with a counter with jars of hot food prepared a customer asked
87. 8:06at the counter would pay would take the food from a pot to a ceramic bowl and continue on
88. 8:11their way these bistros were popular with the lower classes because they offered a
89. 8:16plentiful meal at a low price and one could easily eat on the go, the upper
90. 8:21class despised thermopoly precisely because it was associated with the lower classes.
91. 8:28Although it was not the first professional standing army in the world that honor belongs
92. 8:33to the ancient Assyrian empire, the Roman army was the most efficient and powerful of its time
93. 8:37and the Romans developed many aspects of military life that are still used
94. 8:42today training Basic was mandatory to instill discipline
95. 8:46and skill in battle and the use of weapons the Roman legions were egalitarian in the
96. 8:51sense that a soldier of the lowest class could rise through the ranks to become an
97. 8:56officer the Roman army had a personal engineering corps For logistics and support
98. 9:01, artillery corps and qualified medical support personnel, the medics were so effective in
99. 9:07fact that a soldier who served in the army of ancient Rome had a better chance of
100. 9:11surviving his injuries than anyone who served in the American Civil War.
101. 9:18The Roman Empire played an important role in the expansion of Christianity Constantine the
102. 9:24Great issued the founding Nicene Creed in 325 AD which was adopted by the
103. 9:30Catholic Church and modified by later Protestant Churches the concepts of
104. 9:36priest appointment of priests by a board a high priest and lesser priests in addition to
105. 9:43the recitation of a religious ritual in Latin were all Roman traditions adopted
106. 9:47by the church, with the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches spreading Christianity
107. 9:53throughout most of Europe and some parts of Western Asia becoming Christian from the
108. 9:58Middle Ages to the 16th century, the Roman Catholic Church was the most powerful political organization
109. 10:04and the Bishop of Rome or Pope was the most powerful political figure on the European continent.