What's so "ancient" about Rome?

Q: What's so "ancient" about Rome?
A: There are many things that are ancient about Rome. Ancient is defined as, “of or in time long past, esp. before the end of the Western Roman Empire A.D. 476,” and, “dating from a remote period; of great age.” In other words, this means that ancient is something or someone who lived in or that thrived in older times. This time is mostly before the Western Roman Empire ended, which was around 476 A.D. The architecture, art, and culture in some areas of Rome are very ancient. The architecture of Rome has a lot of Greek, cultural influence. They made their architecture somewhat different to create a new architectural style. This architecture is considered classic, as well as the Greek architecture. They also made the arch and the dome, which we still use today. There are many famous ancient buildings in Rome such as, the aqueducts of Rome, the Baths of Diocletian and the Baths of Caracalla, the Pantheon, Rome, the basilicas, and the Colosseum. They wanted to have buildings to be able to show off as well as being a place to hold public meetings, plays, sports, and other activities and meetings. They also had their art influence come from Greece. Their culture was very important to the Romans. They had many styles of clothes depending on the class of the person. They had a tunic for the common people and a toga for free Roman men. The men wore rings and the women wore a tunica, stola, and shawl. The women also wore cloaks, necklaces, pins, earrings, bracelets, rings, and pearls. They used false hairpieces and jeweled hairpins. Roman urban life was a lot like it is today. They had traffic and the rich lived in large houses. They had games and shows to calm the people of Rome such as, chariot races, theatrical and musical performances, wild-beast hunts, mock sea battles, public executions, and gladiatorial combat. The Colosseum seated up to 50,000 people. The arena, Circus Maximus, held 300,000 people in it. They gathered in that arena to see chariot races and other very popular events. The government gave food to the poor because they felt they had a civic duty and they wanted to show off their money and economic success. Prosperity did not last forever though; with increased cost of army and other things, the economic successes they had been having quickly became failures. In the rural countryside, where most of the population lived, lived in small huts. Farming was the only truly secure investment a person could make in Rome. Rome inherited the dictatorial system from Egypt and treated their slaves very badly and did not care if they got hurt or were killed. The countryside then became depopulated as more people moved into the city. Though Rome is very ancient, they had many technological advancements for their time. They created the first roads that were not made out of dirt, this made trading easier and more beneficial to Rome. They also made strong aqueducts, which still stand today. Aqueducts are “structures used to conduct a water stream across a hollow or valley” (http://www.crystalinks.com/). “In modern engineering "aqueduct" refers to a system of pipes, ditches, canals, tunnels, and supporting structures used to convey water from its source to its main distribution point” (http://www.crystalinks.com/). This elaborate system served as the capital of the Roman Empire. Some aqueducts are still in use today. Some arches are still found in Greece, Italy, France, Spain, Northern Africa, and Asia Minor. There are many things that make Rome ancient, but the things the created and did to change the world today will always be remembered.