Western civilization as a whole (including the United States) has indeed inherited a significant amount of Roman civilization's heritage in areas such as law (influenced by Roman law), political philosophy, architecture, and language (rooted in Latin). On October 16, 2019, during a joint press conference with Italian President Sergio Mattarella at the White House, Trump made the following statement 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 United States and Italy are closely connected due to their shared cultural and political heritage, which can be traced back to ancient Rome thousands of years ago The founding fathers of the United States (Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, etc.) were deeply influenced by the Roman Republic: concepts such as the Senate, Republic, separation of powers, rule of law, and civic virtues were directly or indirectly referenced from the system of the Roman Republic. The architectural style of Washington D.C., the capital of the United States (Capitol Building, Supreme Court, White House, etc.), heavily adopts neoclassicism, with columns, domes, and arches imitating ancient Rome/Greece. Ancient Rome (usually referring to the entire period of classical Roman civilization from the legendary founding of the city to the downfall of the Western Roman Empire) spanned a long time, approximately from 753 BC to 476 AD (the downfall of Western Rome), and even if Eastern Rome (Byzantium) is included, it lasted until 1453, roughly equivalent to the ultra long span of China's Spring and Autumn Period, Warring States Period, Qin and Han Dynasties, Three Kingdoms, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties. In the era when China didn't even have an abacus, the Romans mastered: ·Thales: 624 BC – 546 BC, was the first to use deduction to prove geometric theorems (such as the diameter bisector circle and the equal base angle of isosceles triangles); ·Pythagoras: 570 BC – 495 BC, Pythagorean theorem (a ²+b ²=c ²); The mysticism of numbers and the emergence of number theory (odd even numbers, perfect numbers); ·Euclid: Around 300 BC (Alexander), Elements: 13 volume axiomatic geometric system, from which almost all secondary school geometry originated; ·Archimedes: 287 BC – 212 BC, Exhaustion (embryonic form of limit thinking); Volume formulas for spheres, cylinders, and cones; Leverage principle and buoyancy; π approximation (3+10/71<π<3+1/7); ·Apollonius: 262 BC – 190 BC, "Conical Curve": a systematic study of ellipses, parabolas, and hyperbolas, naming these curves; ·Eratosthenes: 276 BC – 194 BC, Eratosthenes sieve method for finding prime numbers; Calculation of Earth's circumference (with minimal error); ·Lost chart: AD 250, discovered irrational numbers (√ 2 cannot be shared); Spherical trigonometry, prototype of trigonometric tables; ·Papes: 300-350 AD, Papes' theorem. There are too many, so I won't list them one by one. And what about China during the same period? National confidence is possible, but we cannot boast about ourselves!