In contrast to the Greeks, who held an extremely elitist view of themselves and spent their money to build stylish architecture, the Romans took a different approach and used their funds to develop civil projects, such as road networks and aqueducts. The Roman’s road network was the first European transport network ever established inland. Rome is also the only nation to ever have control the entire Mediterranean coastline, which allowed them to monopolize on all imports and exports that took the Mediterranean route. The integrated migration of human beings from Britain into the Roman Empire also allowed these immigrants to begin having a subtle influence of their own on Roman