Gaius Marius was the consul for Rome and was elected seven times. Marius defeated the invading Germanic tribes, his career was of great significance for Rome's transformation from Republic to Empire.
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An Aqueduct is a Roman Structure built to transport water from the mountains to the city in ancient Rome
No it was not. The Colosseum was an amphitheatre. The seating of a theatre was a semi-circle. The seating of an amphitheatre was a full circle or an oval. Basically, an amphitheatre was an arena.
Athens, among many Greek cities, reflects an ancient Greek influence. One of the most apparent ways Athens reflects this is through the ruins of the city that still remain from ancient times.
In the modern world (and in WW II) the Romans are the inhabitants of the city of Rome, which is the capital of Italy. In the ancient world, the ancient Romans conquered a large empire.
From my understanding their was so much intermixing over the years it is hard to tell. Ethnic Romans were descendants of Indo-European Italic peoples and non-Indo-European Mediterranean peoples (myths say they are descended from Trojan refugees from Greece). They began in Italy in an area called Latium. Eventually they expanded their empire to what is now France, Spain, Portugal, the United Kingdom, Germany, and parts of Eastern Europe and the Near East. When they invaded a nation (i.e. the Celtic Gauls in France) they would intermix with them. Gauls and Romans produced Gallo-Romans. Celtiberians in Spain and Romans produced Hispano-Romans. Later, Germanic tribes took over the Western part of Rome and intermixed with the Gallo-Romans, Hispano-Romans, Roman-Romans, etc. producing the French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, etc. peoples. All in all, many European peoples have Roman blood but their exists no pure Roman people in Modern Europe. Romance speaking people probably have more Roman ancestry than a Russian or German for example, but still possess German, Celtic, and even Middle Eastern blood.