Compare And Contrast Ancient Rome And Modern Day America

Rome Assessment

Do you remember learning about Rome in grade school? You would think, “wow Rome was an amazing civilization!” But did you ever consider how similar, but also how different Rome is to modern day America? This essay is going to compare and contrast the Ancient Roman civilization to the modern day America. Because the Modern U.S. and Ancient Rome have many similarities and differences, the lessons from Ancient Rome could help the U.S. to avoid the fall and collapse that Rome experienced.

First off let’s compare the similarities between the civilizations of Ancient Rome and the modern day U.S. My first thought when thinking about comparisons was their money management. One reason I thought of money management was because both civilizations spend money on unreasonable things, other than spending money on things to improve the civilization. Rome spent money on ridiculous things, such as, engineering and building the biggest castle that

was ever created or humongous statues. They could have spent it on a more reliable source of food. Like building stables for animals that could multiple eventually and give Rome a huge supply of food. In the U.S. we spend money on engineering and producing $1,000 smartphones and 17.8 million dollar watches that are only for style. Or cars that cost 4.5 million dollars just so you can drive fast and rev your engine. We could instead be spending this money on repaying our enormous 21 trillion dollar debt in counting. Now onto my next comparison. The U.S. and Rome both rely on other countries to, survive basically. In Rome, their warriors would go around taking over civilizations and take all of the cities goods and money. When they ran out of cities to conquer, their empire fell. The same thing will happen to America if we follow in Rome’s footsteps. We, as I mentioned earlier, are in a $21 trillion dollar debt! We are relying on other countries to help us. Just like Rome. My last comparison is the “invaders”. Rome had hundreds of people flocking from other countries to live in this amazing city! This however led to hundreds of Romans being unemployed. The same thing happens in America. This is why our current president Donald Trump is trying to “build a wall” to “make America great again”. What he means is, get the immigrants back to their countries, so the many homeless, hungry, and destitute Americans can get the jobs they would have if immigrants weren’t working in America.

Now, we are going to move onto the differentiations of Ancient Rome and Modern America.This essay will show how much economics and laws/rules have changed throughout the years.

One example of this is how the rulers become rulers. In Rome they rule in dynasties (like a monarchy) or they have dictatorships. On the other hand, in America, the people have a say and we get to elect our rulers. Also, our “rulers” don’t have absolute power. Accordingly there are no dictatorships here. Another difference is, Rome had an unbalanced income, while the US citizens pay taxes and things to keep balance. My last difference is the role of woman. In Rome the only thing that women were important for was to feed the men. They couldn’t work, they couldn’t own land, and they didn’t have a say in anything. Although in Modern day America, the role of women isn’t completely equal to the role of men, there is much more equality. For one, woman can vote. Two, they can own land. Three, they can work and have jobs. The role of women has changed a

lot.

And lastly, I’m going to talk about some improvements America can make so that we don’t fall as a civilization like Ancient Rome did. The first and biggest recommendation is that we need to get out of debt. $21 trillion and counting is a ridiculous amount of money and, like Rome, America will fall. Secondly, America relies on other countries, as I mentioned before, and this will also lead to Rome falling. I suggest that America starts doing things for themselves. Lastly, American citizens need to pay attention to politics. In Rome they created distractions such as the coliseum. In America we have televisions and phones and we need to be more attentive to politics.

To conclude, this has been similarities and differences between a Rome. America needs to watch out for the holes below them. Cause they are about to fall into all of them.