ROMANIZATION

Romanization



Romanization

Introduction

Romanization, a concept created by the researcher Theodor Mommsen in the nineteenth century, indicates the spread of Roman culture through acculturation and cultural assimilation of its attributes, attached by the populations during the expansion of the Roman Republic, the Roman Empire and the Principality within the civilization perspective of Rome. This process varied according to the specificities of the different locations in which it occurred. According to Martin Millett, the Romanization would have started from the top down, with the upper classes adopting Roman culture in the first place and, more slowly; this assimilation would spread to the innermost regions and peripheral among the peasants. Other perspectives, however, emphasize the participation of natives in the process of change within the Roman Empire, resulting in adaptation practices and concepts used in Rome to meet local interests. As an example of the mechanisms of this process of Romanization, we can highlight the city building, in which local manifested and exercised the right of a Roman citizen, reinforcing the idea of being among the native Roman. Note that the term Romanization varied throughout its existence, and even today the subject of discussions between experts. In the twentieth century, with the processes of decolonization, there was an ideological shift, in which the need for a new discourse and a new perspective of history was present(Irvin, 2012, pp.32-41).

The model of Romanization was developed for the process of progressive change. "Romanization" has much in common with the concepts of "progress”, “development” own the nineteenth century, and early twentieth century's, a period when the British Empire was established and needed fundamentals positivists found in the history of the Roman Empire to justify its imperialist practices in Africa and Asia. Researchers suggest that Rome kept its empire in two ways: organizing the defenses of borders and intervene in the growth of "internal civilizations." The author calls "Romanization" the way of non-Roman receiving a new language, culture, art, urban lifestyle and religion. His two conclusions about the process were: first, Romanization, in general, seeks to abolish the distinction between Roman and provincial, in relation to material culture, politics and language, as other conclusion, it is stated that the process was not the same everywhere and not destroyed, at once, all traces tribal sentiments and " nationalists "of the conquered (Wiseman, 2011, pp.67-72).

In technical terms and legal, you can define a Roman because he had Roman citizenship. However, several other aspects of Roman culture could also be included, such as the worship of Roman gods and then the emperor. However, because of social and territorial differences between the inhabitants of the empire, which identifies a Roman passed assimilate cultural attributes that would make someone become Roman "Roman opinion." The virtues is the set of ideal virtues of man Roman, come, i.e., how a typical Roman should act. Originally, this term was used in specifically describing the courage warrior, but its meaning has been extended and is now called the Roman virtues as well as a ...