In my opinion, the greatest accomplishment that the Roman civilization did was conquering land. The Roman's were very skilled when it comes to getting more land for their empire, and that's what they did. Because of how successful and powerful their military was, they conquered land that was already owned by other empire's. The Roman's conquered land from empire's like he Celtic tribes, Carthage, the Hellenistic Empires, and many more. They conquered a large amount of Europe, North Africa, and Western Asia. This makes it a very big accomplishment because no other Empire had the manpower that the Roman's had, and because of Rome's manpower, they were bound to conquer a lot of Europe and other land. Them expanding their empire allowed them to control most of Europe and other places.
The chinese nationalist government adopted a strategy of trading space for time in its war with Japan. The japanese were also routinely attacked by : Local chinese resistance guerilla forces, acting independently of the Chinese Government
