The Romans were advanced in technology, but they did very little new science. They just studied what the Greeks had discovered and assumed it was all true. I th

The Romans were advanced in technology, but they did very little new science. They just studied what the Greeks had discovered and assumed it was all true. I think this was at least in part because Greece had many competing states, and many were democracies,both of which make for free inquiry, but Rome was a single unified empire, rather like China.