The Language of the Roman Empire
It’s incredible to realize how foundational the Roman Empire was to what we now commonly consider Western civilization.<p>Rome certainly was a highly advanced society in its time, but what a shame to think that because of vast abundance of slaves the Roman society never pushed further with technological innovations, effectively preventing the human race from having mobile phones by the year 1000, if not earlier.<p>Some argue that with less slaves an industrial revolution might have triggered much earlier, and  Roman society was certainly ingenious enough to push the boundaries if there ever was a need to do so.