根据最后一段Even modern place names are often after Ancient Rome. Both Greece and Germany have the names given by the Romans rather than the names that their own people first called them.可知B正确;根据Roman ruins(废墟)are seen throughout Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.可知C正确;...
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