Roman Romanization Essay

What was Romanization and how did it happen?

The Roman Empire was one of the most effective civilizations of all time. Their culture, lifestyle, religion and the state burecratic system could be considered as a new order for that time. Those values were spread all over the lands that they occupied.

Apparently, the history of this process began with these expansions of the other territories.

The Roman culture influenced many countries and societies. The Roman Empire conquered Europe and even stretched overseas to Africa. Moreover, the Roman civilization even reached into Asia as well. The Romans left behind a bounty of cultural values. The Romans were doers and they were very passionate about practising

For me one of the reasons of the Romanization could be this. The imperialism is considered as a main feature of Romanization because the roman empire conquered many regions and after some time the conquered began to feel themselves as romans.

After being conquered, many indigenous elites adopted Roman culture in an attempt to maintain their social status (Riddle, 2008 p.73). As it mentioned above the upper classes wanted to take advantage of this situation. For the most part, ruling classes continued to exist after Roman colonization but only under the careful watch of a

Roman governor, whose presence forcing them to adopt at least certain aspects of

Roman culture. Additionally, Roman provincial governments encouraged elites to adopt a Roman identity by forcing them to follow Roman rules and laws, also to interact with roman people. It became advantageous for the elites to adopt Roman traditions and appearances in order to navigate these inherently Roman political and social dynamics.

But there is a notion that romans were not interested in lower class because common people was unaffected by their political objectives. It is a common myth that