The enduring Roman Influence is reflected pervasively in contemporary language, literature, legal codes, government, architecture, engineering, medicine, sports, arts, etc. Much of it is so deeply inbedded that we barely notice our debt to ancient Rome. Consider language, for example. Fewer and fewer people today claim to know Latin and yet, go back to the first sentence in this paragraph. If we removed all the words drawn directly from Latin that sentence would read "The. -National Geographic Magazine , 1997 . What is the main idea behind this author's statement about the impact of Roman culture?
