Question

is Rome an ethnically diverse society

Answer 1

Because of the number of cultures that Rome conquered in its prodigious reign, there were many ethnic groups who reached Italia and subsequently settled there. These groups include Romans, Italians, Goths, Greeks, Spanish, Celts, Turks, Crusaders, Romanians, and Gypsies over the centuries. By 100 AD Rome is a rich mix of different cultures and religions. Despite such dictatorial power wielded by Rome at the height of its power, Rome was actually more democratic when it comes to keeping its people’s cultural practices and traditions alive. The freedom by which its constituents – citizen or otherwise – exercise their diversity can be still be seen in present Rome’s architecture, language and people.

Rome’s architecture shows a fusion of traditional Etruscan and Greek elements. For the whole of the republican period, Roman architecture was a nearly exact copy of that of Greece. However, it was late through their reign that they achieved originality in construction.

Carried over from Macedonia, mosaic was used to tile the floors of houses in Rome. Mosaic floors are particularly associated with Roman dwellings from Britain to Dura-Europas. Splendid mosaic floors distinguished luxurious Roman villas across North Africa. In Rome, Nero and his architects used mosaics to cover the surfaces of walls and ceilings in the Domus Aurea, built 64 AD.

Moreover, the dialects of Rome, which comprised the Italiano Centrale, is a group of western Romance dialects spoken in Latium, Umbria, central Marche, extreme southern Tuscany, and a little part of Abruzzo in central Italy. These dialects may have slight differences among them, but all are closely related to Tuscan and are mutually intelligible with each other as well as with standard Italian.

Italiano Centrale dialects include Marchigiano (from the central part of Marche), Umbrian dialects (Umbria), Cicolano-Reatino-Aquilano (L'Aquila and Province of Rieti), Tuscia dialect (Tuscia, northern part of Latium), Romanesco (Rome), Romanaccio, Giudeo-Romanesco, Castelli Romani dialect (Castelli Romani), and Ciociaro (Ciociaria, southern part of Latium).

Italkian, another minority dialect in Rome, was spoken mainly in urban areas in Rome and in central and northern Italy (especially in Livorno) from the 10th to the 17th centuries in Italy. Described as a mix between Italian and Hebrew, it is estimated that only a tiny number of people speak Italkian fluently today and less than 4,000 people still use it in their everyday speech.

Italkian is not the only dialect that employs Hebrew. Others include Yiddish, which is a mix between German and Hebrew, and Ladino (Judeo-Spanish), a mix between Spanish and Hebrew. Linguists also make a distinction between such Jewish Italo-Romance dialects as Giudeo-Ferrarese, Giudeo-Mantovano, Giudeo-Modenese, Giudeo-Reggiano, and Giudeo-Veneto.

Answer 2

not sure if he still needs the answer xD