The entire Western civilization (including the United States) has indeed inherited a large amount of heritage from Roman civilization in areas such as law (influenced by Roman law), political philosophy, architecture, and language (with Latin roots).

On October 16, 2019, during a joint press conference at the White House with Italian President Sergio Mattarella, Trump said in his opening remarks:

“The United States and Italy are bound together by a shared cultural and political heritage dating back thousands of years, to ancient Rome.”

The translation is: “The United States and Italy are closely connected by a shared cultural and political heritage that can be traced back thousands of years to ancient Rome.”

The Founding Fathers of the United States (such as Jefferson, Madison, and Hamilton) were deeply influenced by the Roman Republic: concepts like the United States Senate, republicanism, separation of powers, rule of law, and civic virtue often directly or indirectly reference the institutions of the Roman Republic period.

The architectural style of Washington D.C. (including the Capitol, the Supreme Court, and the White House) employs a significant amount of Neoclassicism, with columns, domes, and arches imitating ancient Rome/ancient Greece.

Ancient Rome (typically referring to the entire classical Roman civilization period from the legendary founding to the fall of the Western Roman Empire) spans a long time, approximately from 753 BC to 476 AD (the fall of the Western Roman Empire), and even extending to 1453 AD if including the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine), corresponding roughly to the extensive time period of Spring and Autumn → Warring States → Qin and Han → Three Kingdoms and the Two Jin Dynasties and Northern and Southern Dynasties in China.

At a time when China didn’t even have the abacus, the Romans had mastered:

· Thales: 624 BC–546 BC, the earliest to use deductive reasoning to prove geometric theorems (such as the diameter bisecting a circle, angles at the base of an isosceles triangle are equal);

· Pythagoras: 570 BC–495 BC, the Pythagorean theorem (a² + b² = c²); mysticism of numbers, the beginnings of number theory (odd and even numbers, perfect numbers);

· Euclid: around 300 BC (in Alexandria), "Elements": a 13-volume axiomatic geometric system, with almost all high school geometry originating from it;

· Archimedes: 287 BC–212 BC, method of exhaustion (precursor of limit concepts); formulas for the volume of spheres, cylinders, and cones; lever principles, buoyancy; approximation of π (3 + 10/71 < π < 3 + 1/7);

· Apollonius: 262 BC–190 BC, "Conics": systematically studying ellipses, parabolas, hyperbolas, naming these curves;

· Eratosthenes: 276 BC–194 BC, the sieve of Eratosthenes for finding prime numbers; calculating the Earth's circumference (with minimal error);

· Diophantus: 250 AD, discovered irrational numbers (√2 is not commensurable); precursor of spherical trigonometry and trigonometric tables;

· Pappus: 300–350 AD, Pappus's theorem.

There are too many to list one by one, while at the same time, what did China have during that period? Having national confidence is acceptable, but one must not just indulge in self-glorification!

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