However,it was in law and politics that Roman influence can be felt most strongly today.Much European law is still derived from Roman law.The ideas of equity,equality before the law,citizen's rights and elected officials,while originating through the Greeks,were all taken further by the Romans and have down to us in a basically Roman form.
Roman citizenship was provided to the people of Rome and all of them had equal rights in the eyes of the law.Even a jew in a far away province who happened to possess Roman citizenship could cry for help and that person will be taken to Caesar.The great legal digests of the late empire enshrined these principles and passed them on to future European civilisation.
