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finally to the destruction of the Greek civilization 
by Rome. 
Rome followed much the same course in the de 
velopment of her government, her ideas and her in 
stitutions as that which Greece had pursued; with 
the principal exception that she pushed her military 
conquests farther and held them longer by following 
them up with economic developments. She carried 
her arms as far north as the North Sea and the island 
of Britain, on the west, as far east as the river 
Rhine and, east of the Rhine, as far north as the 
Danube. And wherever she established her political 
control she built roads leading from the capital of 
the empire to its farthest boundary and established 
commerce and encouraged industry, thereby intro 
ducing civilization. Even after her military power 
could be pushed no farther she sent out industrial 
colonies, with companies of soldiers to protect them 
and to defend the commerce which arose as a result 
of the cultivation of industry. Thus the Roman 
civilization was carried by economic means to terri 
tories which had repelled the Roman arms, namely, 
the country north of the Danube and east of the 
Rhine; and the commercial cities of the German 
country, Mayence, Worms, Spires, and Strasburg, 
Bingen, Coblentz, Bonn, Cologne, Augsburg, Sals- 
burg, and Vienna, all owe their origin to the period 
of Roman conquest, either by arms or by commerce.