Latin America Is The Roman Empire

[Anglojew]

The Roman Empire was one of the greatest empires in history, here is a map of it at its height in 117 CE;



In 395 Rome split into eastern & western halves;



This coincided with the division of European Christianity between the Orthodox east & Catholic west (with Protestants breaking away from the Catholic West at a later date [so therefore it could be argued that North America is also & offshoot of Rome]);



After the rise of Islam Muslims invaded & conquered parts of the Catholic west especially the Iberian peninsula, see the Umayyad Empire at its height;




The fractured & besieged west attempted to regroup for centuries, fighting various crusades in the east and north before finally reconquering the Iberian peninsula;



Still besieged from their traditional overland trade routes to China & India & fresh from their reconquest of Iberia this invigorated west searched for new sea avenues to China & India & in doing so discovered the Americas & simply shifted their resources from the reconquest of Iberia to the conquest of the Americas;



Here the political, religious, cultural, linguistic & ethnic descendants of the western Roman Empire conquered & eventually settled, absorbing the Aztec, Mayan, Inca & other American civilisations & peoples before eventually fragmenting into many nation-states but nevertheless Latin America IS the contemporary Roman Empire.

[JosephK]

Um, no...?

[JosephK]

Well, maybe... in a way...

[Ruggery]

If we had inherited things from Rome instead of Spain, we probably would.
Argentina and Uruguay are the 2 Latin American countries culturally closest to the Roman Empire.

[Creoda]

The Roman Empire expired in the 5th century.

With this logic the British Empire is still going strong and as powerful as ever.

[Anglojew]

The Roman Empire expired in the 5th century.

With this logic the British Empire is still going strong and as powerful as ever.

No it morphed into Christendom eg the Catholic west.

I live in a country in which the head or state is the Queen. The UK abandoned its empire on the alter of white guilt and political correctness though.

[Catarinense1998]

Are you serious?

[Anglojew]

Are you serious?

Yes.

[Catarinense1998]

Yes.

Latin America took so many africans to be related with romans. Even today, we have amerindian nations like Bolivia, Peru and Guatemala. A great ideia made by you.

[Anglojew]

Latin America took so many africans to be related with romans. Even today, we have amerindian nations like Bolivia, Peru and Guatemala. A great ideia made by you.

Rome had many Africans. I stated it absorbed the NA peoples.