Why is it that today no country has inherited the mantle of the Roman Empire and made the Mediterran

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Hello: In question"Rome"It should be called"Ancient Rome"to be accurate. In the heyday of ancient Rome, the Mediterranean Sea was its own swimming pool, but now Rome is gnawing at the old.

The transformation of the Mediterranean Sea into the Inland Sea of Ancient Rome was a long process, and I will explain it briefly:

The ancient Roman city-states first conquered the Italian peninsula, and then went to war with the North African power Carthage (you should have heard the story of Hannibal), the first defeat and the second defeat of Carthage through the Punic Wars, thus conquering the Western Mediterranean; In the end, after many battles, he defeated the Greek city-states, Macedonia, Seleucids and other countries to achieve hegemony in the Eastern Mediterranean. At this point, the entire Mediterranean Sea became the inland sea of the ancient Roman Empire.

Well... Because ancient Rome occupied the entire Mediterranean coast.

Difficult conditions, east of the Rhine and north of the Alps, which we call Germania, are mostly dense forests and swamps. On the Mediterranean coast,The Roman army could use the Mediterranean waterways for strategic projection, but in Germania this environment was not conducive to the actions of the Roman army. The local Germanic annihilated several Roman legions in an ambush, making the conquest even more difficult.

Unprofitable or not worth the cost. Germania has less arable land than the Mediterranean coast and will be difficult to cultivate if conquered. The population density was so low that it was difficult to plunder on a large scale even by conquest.

The long-term presence of military forces in the region is costly and uneconomical. It lacked necessity and feasibility, so the Romans had no interest in conquering Germania.

This is not to say that Rome did not try, but after a failed attempt, it did not take the same momentum when the Punic War was determined to destroy GermaniaCombining the above two factors, if you want to conquer the whole of Europe, the price to pay is too great, and the rewards are not rich enough, so there is no need to do it。In fact, if the Mediterranean region is done well, it is also a good result.

The Roman Empire did not have enough ** to occupy and defend most of its territory. It has conquered many peoples, and its internal contradictions have hindered its internal stability and outward expansion to a certain extentAnd the more places you conquer, the more effort and thought you have to put into management, otherwise it is easy to go wrong. Therefore, this kind of business that has no interests to make and loses money, Rome will not do it!

The Roman legions fought that year. Birmania was badly damaged, and Germania was not a suitable place for military operations, so they were only on the Mediterranean coast.

First of all, we must have enough military strength and scientific and technological research and development products, and we must have the conditions to expand, but in fact we don't have that ability.

They were too proud of the Roman Empire, which is why it led to such a situation.

I think the main reason was that Germania itself was not very easy to conquer by the Roman Empire.

The Roman Empire, after the reconquest of Crete by Emperor Ninephorus Phorcas in 961, dominated the Eastern Mediterranean and also achieved hegemony in the Western Mediterranean. In southern Italy, it gradually regained control of the Duchy of Lombardy, easily containing the attempts of the Germanic Empire, which reoccupied the strategically important Balkans.