All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
I'll give 'em a patent on "public order" - most of all that other stuff they either had nothing to do with or adopted from someone else. And you left "the Dark Ages" off the list, a Roman cultural artifact brought about by the need for "public order". Granted the middle period was due in part by the Hundred Years War, the three-year "mini-ice age", and several bouts of plague. Oh, and there's censorship, which they invented in a serious way in order to get rid of all the non-"orthodox" writings from groups descended from the original apostles (literally, "censor", meaning "to burn") whom they branded as "heretics".
Of course the institution of "public order" in this country will result in serious gun "control". The traditional "American values" method of ensuring public order, which we received from folks like Grapeshot's ancestors, relied on people knowing where their duty lies, being socially responsible, and voluntarily complying with the law. The destruction of concepts of community and sovereignty resulting from the influx of Roman culture and dilution of the Calvinist influence vis-a-vis "the melting pot" since the late 1800's has made the imposition of public order by suppression of thought and liberty necessary. Soon, we'll be begging "the Supreme Holy Father" to step in and save us from ourselves. Watch and see if I'm not right about that. (Be patient, though, it may be another thirty or forty years out.)
I'm giving myself indigestion just thinking about it, and we haven't even had lunch yet.