What Are Romance Languages?

The Roman Empire was heavily influenced by Greek culture, and in its time conquered the known world. From the Greek people he received the cultural tradition of Alexander the Great, that the conquered people could preserve their customs, language, and organization, provided they recognized the emperor and Roman institutions as their rulers.
The permanence of the troops stationed in the provinces and their use of Vulgar Latin, as well as the languages locals on the part of the conquered, evolved towards a unified language, which in each province took on dyes own. These romanized languages ​​are called Romance Languages.
There are currently five main Romance languages:
Italian: Direct descendant of Latin, it takes elements of provinces of the peninsula that were not part of the Roman Empire: Sicily, Naples.
Romanian: Product of the Slavic province of Dacia, renamed Romania, it is more Latin and has a lot of resemblance to Italian.
French: Combination of the Gallic dialects and Latin, current French is a unified version of various dialects that were still used until the First World War, such as Provençal, Norman, and picardo.

Portuguese and Galician: These regions had the same language; Being influenced by Latin, they followed separate paths, giving rise to the Portuguese language in Portugal, and in Galicia, the Galician language, official parallel to Spanish.
Spanish: In the Iberian Peninsula, in addition to Galician, other dialects such as Aragonese, Cantabrian, Leonese or Asturian are spoken. For the marriage of Fernando de Aragón and Isabel de Castilla, and the unification of the Hispanic kingdoms to expel the Arabs from the peninsula in 1492, the dialect was established as a common language Castilian; it was implanted in the Spanish colonies of America and enriched with Arab and American influences, evolving into current Spanish.