List of Impacts on Modern Civilization
- Spread of Christianity
- Republic form of government
- large size and unified states allowed spread of ideas faster
- English has many Latin words.
- The Latin language was the foundation for Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian, and Romanian languages
- Romans came up with the idea of the modern calendar
- Rome invented concrete
- Hippocrates opened the door to cause of diseases and possible treatments and also is the founder of the Hippocratic Oath.
- Herophilus argued that the brain was the center of the nervous system and all arteries transport blood not air.
- Erasistratus differentiated sensory from motor nerves. He also explained the roles of the heart.
- Euclid was the first to develop the use of geometry.
- Dioscorides compiled a list of drugs and plants in his book On Medical Matters, which was the founding text of botany and pharmacology