10 Keywords to Briefly Understand the Roman Empire

 1. The birthplace of the West = Greece/Roma is half of the Western world. Adding Christianity and post-modern enlightenment ideas to this is exactly the Western world. Just as we can't imagine the East without China and the Middle East without Islam, we can't imagine the West without Rome. 

2. The rule of law = law existed in any country, but the concept of law we understand today can be found in Rome. A state of system in which the law went beyond heaven's orders or simple rules and established itself as a sacred discipline that the emperor could not go against. 

3. A military state that justified their invasion, believing that we are justice = Romanization is civilization. So, are the opinions of those who say that they eventually became peaceful right? Come to think of it, invasion of other civilizations in the Western world has always been done in the name of a temple where justice intervenes to rescue barbarism. (Completing the sacred mission of white people, America is the guardian of freedom, etc.) 

4. A country that collapses if you don't run = A country that grew into a war and could not be maintained without a war, Rome... Perhaps it was the limitation of a slave society. 

5. Rationality = Thoroughly reasonable. Even if you look at religion or philosophy. Everything is divided into the criteria of being right/not wrong, but beneficial/unbeneficial. 

6. The first success story of the world empire = multi-ethnicity. The first case in which it was able to continue its rule for more than hundreds of years while dominating multiple civilizations. Thanks to the excellence of the administrative system and overwhelming military power. 

7. The country that succeeded with the system = Rome is not a country that succeeded because some heroes are good. The system was good and long-term successful in maintaining/improving these systems. (It is therefore unjustifiable to ask the cause of the fall of Comodus-style Rome. The moment the system became out of date, it just began to fail) 

8. The world's strongest empire? It's not like that...=It was probably possible to occupy such a position among Western countries. It is not easy to distinguish superiority and inferiority with the contemporary Han Dynasty, and since then, countries similar to or higher than the Roman Empire have emerged (even when compared with their presence in their own time, not just direct comparison with Rome). For example, the Qing Dynasty, which conquered all areas affected by China, clearly outperformed Rome, not a country that relied solely on force like Mongolia) 

9. The birthplace of world civilization? This is by no means true = Architecture/administration/law/military in areas where Rome may be said to have contributed decisively to mankind. In fact, I personally believe that the Islamic world ranks first in terms of its contribution to human civilization. China and India in their heyday were on par, but they were not actively spreading them. 

10. An indeterminate society mixed with dictatorship + republic + slave = emperor slaughtered thousands of citizens, while Roman commoners who were more active than any common people before the French Revolution existed, and on the other hand, slaves who were treated as dogs and sold like goods coexist.