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If Rome had not conquered the Hellenistic world it could not even have controlled the entirety of the Italian peninsula. he supposition is flawed because Rome's conquest of the Grek speaking world was a precondition for their later greatness. We might as well be talking here about what if Epirus had conquered a world spanning empire, that was acrtually a near-run thing anyway. The Romans barely beat Pyrrhus of Epirus as it was.
Google Perfruere iuvat me discere latina.
Conquered Greece took captive her savage conqueror and brought her arts into rustic Latium. Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Book II, epistle i, lines 156-157The world needs Rome because historically it couldn't be avoided. The greatest importance of Rome was its legacy through what those Latin barbarians could collect from conquered civilisation that were assimilated and transferred to the Western world, just like it happened when the germanic migrations have subdued the Western roman empire.(not to speak about the Eastern roman empire legacy)
