By April Yorke Years ago, my Roman Civilizations professor began the course by having people shout out things from the Romans that we still use today. Students called out things like cement, roads, and the [Julian] calendar. After a while, he told us to think smaller. No matter what we said, it wasn’t small enough. Smaller, smaller, smaller. So, what’s the very small thing we can thank the Romans for? Our alphabet. If you’re reading this, you probably use the same alphabet as me – the Roman alphabet.
