The architecture
Romans created a wonderful and lasting legacy of architecture, provided some of the finest and most distinctive buildings in the entire Ancient World. The concern with simplicity, proportion, perspective, and harmony in their buildings would dominate the western world from the Renaissance to the present day.
Roman influences may be found around us today, in government buildings, great houses, and even small houses, where in Washington DC we see them in the Capitol Building, the White House, the Lincoln Memorial and other government buildings. All across the US the seats of regional government were normally built in the grand traditions of Rome, with vast flights of stone steps sweeping up to towering pillared porticoes, with huge domes gilded or decorated inside with the same or similar themes that were popular in Rome.
