<span>Roosevelt asserted American power with the Monroe Doctrine. It outlined the fact that the United States would not be controlled by European countries.</span>
Oddly enough, it wasn't Rome. Nor was it Antioch or Cordoba (both of those cities aren't even in Italy).
When the Byzantine empire expanded its borders under Justinian, it reclaimed much of what used to be part of the Roman Empire throughout the Mediterranean. But when they took Italy, they made Ravenna a provincial capital - not Rome. Later, it would eventually become the capital of a Byzantine Exarchate.
Technology has improved, we got video games, arcade halls, more to do with phones and computers, so that means thst advertisers could advertise their stuff on computers.
(I dunno I guess that's the only connection I saw...)
