The Fascinating Story of the Battle of Cannae: Hannibal vs Rome
How Hannibal brought a Great Empire to its knees.
Our world has seen countless empires that claimed to be eternal. And yet, none of them survives today. All of them were swept away by the sands of time. Percy Bysshe Shelley summed up the fate of empires in the best way possible in his poem Ozymandias. Here is an excerpt from it,
“And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
What makes the empire of Rome so special, then? Even though there are no native Romans in the world right now, and their official language, Latin, is now considered a dead language, their architecture still stands in the Italian city of Rome. Scientists use Latin as the preferred language for naming things because even after the Roman empire and the native speakers of Latin died out, the language had a strong influence on other languages like French, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, and Italian.
