Paraphrasing and summarizing

 

1.  In this short excerpt from David Crystal’s English as a Global Language, take note of the way that power relationships rather than the number of speakers influenced Latin   language use.

 

“Latin became an international language throughout the Roman Empire, but this was not because the Romans were more numerous than the peoples they subjugated. They were simply more powerful.”

 

My Paraphrase

According to David Crystal (1997), Latin was widely adopted by the Roman Empire despite the fact that the Romans were not the dominating peoples.

 

2. "Why a language becomes a global language has little to do with the number of people who speak it. It is much more to do with who those speakers are. Latin became an international language throughout the Roman Empire, but this was not because the Romans were more numerous than the peoples they subjugated. They were simply more powerful. And later, when Roman military power declined, Latin remained for a millennium as the international language of education, thanks to a different sort of power – the ecclesiastical power of Roman Catholicism.”

 

Source: Crystal, D. (1997). English as a global language. Cambridge: Cambridge University

Press.

 

My Summary

 

The strong power of the Romans had directly affected the usage of Latin in Roman Empire.

Question:
 

I felt that both my paraphrase and my summary for these 2 paragraphs are very similar, am I doing it the right way? Hmm..