Thread:MrBismark/@comment-34650195-20200502162335/@comment-32919735-20200509180322

Furthermore, Rome didn't fall to uncivilized barbarians, it instead legally fell to another empire

Emphasis on "legally"

The influence the Romans left defined European culture as we know it

It was because of Rome that democracy was so favourable

It was because of Rome that Christendom spread throughout Europe, from the Catholic Portugal to the Byzantine Russia

It was because of Rome that your precious United States could even be founded, as many of the laws, government systems, legal codes and legal practises were first founded by Rome

Heck, Rome's conquerors (the Germanic barbarians and the Ottoman Turks) were so enamoured by Rome's splendor, that they wanted to become just like it (hence the Germanic Holy Roman Empire and the Turkish Qayzar i-Rum)