Written By:Erica Hernandez

The vision of America as Rome has resonance. Emil, a scientist and a lifelong student of Roman history, says we should take a closer look at the American-Rome analogy.  We have been the wealthiest, most powerful, most influential country in the world. The question becomes will it stay that way or fall like the Roman Empire? I think that America will stay this way.  Many of us stay struck by the similarities between the American Empire now and the Roman Empire then. Military strength is the most common similarity Rome and American Empire have. As Rome was the superpower of its time, America is the superpower now. The Romans had the biggest budget, and finest equipment that the world has ever seen. America is just as domaint, its military budget is larger than nine other countries put together. This allowing the U.S to deploy their units almost anywhere across the world in a matter of minutes. Although Rome and America have similarities it also vast differences. America did not form any type of formal colonies and the Romans always did. Until today there has not been any evidence that the Americans have deployed any ruling consuls in other sovereign lands. America and Rome have had their shares of colonizing and conquering evidence by their very histories as it is written throughout the centuries. Considering the history, the Romans understood that the world needed to practice imperialism, namely the art of winning wars and invading territories; they also practiced and learned the political tricks that sustained their ability to stay in power of their territories during their reigning period. America has more Roman influence than we realize, the Romans bequeathed a format on how imperial business should be handled, today the Americans in the U.S are implementing the same tactics without fail, without knowing the Roman “roots” of these tactics. During the Roman Empire the Romans had great military strength. The rest of the world undoubtly knew their strength and consequently feared Rome as well. The Romans were known for their infrastructure, and their roads, as well as their engineering feats with bridges and aqua ducts. These were built primarily to enable their military to move more quickly. America also has a great military strength that we all know about. In America today the highways that were like Rome’s roads are highways which find their counterpart in internet, or better known as the information super highway. 
 The United States was perhaps the first great civilization with possible very partial expectation of the Roman Empire, to construct collective identity essentially without primordial ties. America unlike the Romans, premises of social order that developed within the base rather than on the conception of metaphysical equality with the principle negated the symbol legitimacy of hierarchy and that entailed the possibility of continuing challenge to the authority. I think that America although it does have its differences with Roman Empire the similarities it has allows me to believe that it is the next Roman Empire.