How did Roman culture spread throughout the empire during the last half of the first millennium B.C.E.? How did this stimulate new trade and commercial relationships?

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Answer 1

A. Spreading of common culture across the empire
1. retired soldiers settled in lands where they had been stationed and often married locally
2. stamped coins with references to the poetry of Virgil in Britain
3. empire promoted the same style for buildings and urban planning
a. symmetrical, harmonious, regular, and based on Greek architecture
b. artistic traditions of subject-peoples became provincial styles
4. Romans invested in infrastructure throughout the Empire
a. building roads, sewers, and aqueducts
b. amphitheaters, temples, city walls, public baths, and monumental gates arose at public expense
5. trade and new commercial relationships crisscrossed the empire
a. merchants from the Duero valley in Spain were buried in Hungary
b. Greek potters made huge jars to transport wine from Spain to southern France
c. southwest Spain had vast evaporators survive from factories that made garum
d. a tomb at Igel, on the frontier of Germany, records the lives of merchants from northeast France