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True or false. greek and roman architecture is similar because when the roman empire took over greece--->?

True or false. greek and roman architecture is similar because when the roman empire took over greece they liked the greek traditions. I am having trouble with my study guide right now for school and I thought by asking everybody on yahoo answers would be a great idea. This study guide is not for a grade at all. It is just to help me out tomorrow a little bit. The actual test is almost exactly the same thing as this study guide just they make the questions that exact opposite of what is on the study guide. Such as if they were talking about fat the test question would talk about anorexia. I know that was a bad example but it is the best I could think of right now. I always seem to do bad on the easy questions. The first person to answer this question and it is correct will get 10 points. :-)

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1. essentially correct Greece was the centre of culture at that time. That was the place where good architects were, also poets and sculptors. Many Romans preferred to hire a Greek architect (or buy a Greek slave architect) rather than employ a Roman. Kind of like choosing a french cook nowadays... In any case there were many similarities between Rome and greece- Romans actually claimed to be descended from Troy (a greek culture city) Look up the "cursus honorum" - the path of career development of a Roman citizen. There is little place there for art. Most is management skills, politics, law and military.
2. Go with cp_scipio - it's basically what I would say. Compared with the Greeks the Romans were common thugs. They copied a lot of stuff from the Greeks in an attempt to promote Greek ideals. They were still thugs. Very industrious thugs! They owned half the "known" world and did accomplish great things of their own. Think Roman Roads, coliseums (modern day football stadiums), that sort of thing. Their biggest achievement, architecturally, was the aqueduct.