Ancient Rome in the contemporary world
The theme I have chosen is "the ancient Rome in the contemporary world". It is interesting to observe how a civilization after so many years remains a fundamental pillar of our society and serves as an influence on the contemporary world. In my case, I’m going to focus on politics. Rome is founded 753 to. C. By Romulo, and his first form of government was the monarchy, until the expulsion of Tarquinio el Soberbio on 509 to. C., thus becoming a republic that lasted until the proclamation of Octavio Augusto as Emperor on 27. C. With the Roman Empire. This empire will last until 476, in the West, and 1453, in the East. As we can see, Rome had 3 different state models in its long history. And its influence throughout Europe and the areas bathed by the Mediterranean during the times of the Republic and the empire have contributed directly or indirectly in the development of the western culture present to the present day. Rome has a determining element in the development of political life and decision -making of a state, the Senate. In the beginning composed of members who. Later, it will democratize in a way allowing the elections within this and the capacity was at least 300 and 900 maximum, arriving such a high figure with César as consul. The Senate continued to have a broad power until in the low empire, together with the traditional organs of the Government, a merely symbolic role.
The cameral character of the Roman Senate will serve as inspiration for the policy of the contemporary world, with the creation of parliaments for governance and representation of different ideologies. In politics, Classicism was great force as an ideology, we can highlight facts such as the French Revolution in the 18the rise of nationalisms, and in the twentieth century the movement of Italian fascism. As we are moving forward since 1789, classicism and progressive ideas will begin to diverge and antiquity, will settle in a more conservative and antidemocratic area.
The French Revolution (1789), has a classicist background in which they fight against the state society of the old regime where the triumphant were the ones who defended a liberal-bourgeois ideology and those who directed the struggle were merchants, artisans, landowners, liberal professionals. Being both the Girondinos and the Jacobins an elite. Napoleon will be the best example of drift of what was once a liberal revolution to an expansionist imperialism based on some bases in which a conservative nationalism highlighted. In the unifications of Italy (1861) and Germany (1871), the sciences of archeology and ancient history will be used to contribute to creating new national identities. It is in this century when the rise of nationalisms occurs, which settle their bases in a language, customs and a common past of certain peoples, so, to configure a feeling of national unity, historians will play the role of investigatingIn ancient sources such as ideas and notions, sometimes of a legendary or fantastic nature, such as foundational legends, while they are useful for the historical construction of new state realities.
Fascism has its origin at the beginning of the 20th century, after World War I, and its development until the end of World War II, in the historical period called Wars. The ideologists of Italian fascism proclaimed themselves as a continuation of imperial Rome due to the need to legitimize this glorious past by appealing to extreme nationalism, which was characterized by using a certain symbology such as the Roman fasces, of which theTerm fascism, Roman real greeting with an extended arm, paramilitary clothing, a planned economy in favor of corporatism and class collaboration, strong racist feeling and a strong religious component. The arrival of Mussolini at the end of 1922 is the beginning of a stage of the history of Europe, characterized by the predominance of the totalitarian conservative bias systems, see in Italy, the one who was the cradle of fascism, by Mussolini’s hand With the National Fascist Party, Hitler’s Germany with the German National Workers’ Party, Franco’s Spain through a coup d’etat that led to a civil war from which he won and during his regime the State Party was The traditionalist Spanish phalanx of the JONS (National-Indicistist Offensive Boards) after joining the Spanish phalanx of José Antonio Primo de Rivera inspired by the German fascist model and the traditionalist communion (conglomerate of unified Carlist ideologies), and, finally, in The Portugal of Salazar with the National Union as a party, these being the most prominent countries that were dominated by this totalitarian, anti -democratic and extreme doctrine right.
Another very important issue for dealing with is slavery. While it is an issue that goes back to antiquity, it was still very present until some years ago. See as examples of modern slavery in France, which will be present until the arrival of the JacobinSecession in 1865. In France, when Jacobin radicalism arrived during the French revolution, it began to disagree with Roman democracy that they defended at the time, insisting that it was a myth, since it was reserved for a minority of free men in a regime ofslave exploitation. Broadly, we could say that the modern discovered ancient slavery in an attempt to end the ideological support of radical Jacobinism, whose supporters, the Girondinos, will be awarded from now on a tremendous ignorance about the fundamental characters of the ancient world of the ancient world.
In the United States there were the same paternalistic arguments we saw in France, it was in the southern United States where a productive model was developed in which the free, not working thanks to slavery, could devote themselves to "public good", scheme similar to the one he exposes in his works Cicero. In this way, already in the twenties of the 19th century, the "Greco-Roman democracy" of a slave and antiigualitarian nature tried to be abolished in the following decades by the abolitionists of the North, which is why the war ofSecession in 1861-1865. From which the northern states would be victorious, leaving the unified states and with abolished slavery. It was the African -American ethnicity that suffered most from slavery in cotton plantations.
The cultural legacy of Rome is very broad, although I have dealt with issues around politics, it is also very importantThey are governed by law, especially Europeans, to a greater or lesser extent. Thanks to Rome and its expansionism we inherit the Latin language, since, from this language, romance languages, such as Italian, Spanish or Catalan and have influenced other languages, such as English, such as English, such as English. And finally, the inheritance of a monumental and solid architecture, among other great milestones.
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