Question

Consider napoleon's remark that "the story of rome is the story of the world." what do you think he meant by this? how is it that the "western world grew up in rome's shadow?"

Answer 1

With this, Napoleon meant that the history of Rome repeats itself since then. Rome's rose as the most powerful empire of the western civilization, but in the end all that rise must fall. The same happened with the empire Napoleon built, and the empires the colonist nations built (England, France, Spain).