[factoryrat]

Western civilization is the last vestige of the Roman empire. Two millenia later, and here we are, still using the latin alphabet. Amazing, isn’t it. The Roman empire never went away, it just kind of spread out a bit.

[SunkenCiv]

Quite so, it has spread out over most of the Earth.

[Cronos]

it spread farther than that — for example, many of the Arab countries have currencies dinar derived from the name denarii.