id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-3806 Culture of ancient Rome - Wikipedia .html text/html 8890 789 61 Main articles: Latin and Languages of the Roman Empire The expansion of the Roman Empire spread Latin throughout Europe, and over time Vulgar Latin evolved and dialectized in different locations, gradually shifting into a number of distinct Romance languages beginning in around the 9th century. Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, a 1st-century BCE Roman architect's treatise "De architectura," with various sections, dealing with urban planning, building materials, temple construction, public and private buildings, and hydraulics, remained a classic text until the Renaissance. The ancient city of Rome had a place called the Campus, a sort of drill ground for Roman soldiers, which was located near the Tiber. Main article: Religion in ancient Rome Heretics as well as non-Christians were subject to exclusion from public life or persecution, but, despite the decline of Greco-Roman polytheism, Rome's original religious hierarchy and many aspects of its ritual influenced Christian religion as a whole;[31] various pre-Christian beliefs and practices survived as well in Christian festivals and local traditions. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3806.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3806.txt