Why does Hollywood make movies about Rome?

Recently looked through was a very thick, very expensive, and illustrated book on Ancient History. Inside it was written the "First civilizations were in Mesopotamia". It didn't mention though that Mesopotamia is in Asia or Asia Minor. Being misleading wasn't it's only error, falsely archiving to it's readers that everything started just 3000 BCE. The book went on a type of History-timeline and said that the first "Western European civilization" was the Minoans. Problem is that Minoans were in Crete, which is in "Southern Europe or Eurasia" at that time in the Mediterranean. Then the book went onto the greatness of "The Roman Empire". If it really revealed Rome, Americans might not see Rome as so great a thing at all. Rome is connected greater with Asia Minor History, with other waves of Asia Minor peoples invading. Rome was not a Gaulish, or part of Gaul Regions to say the least. North Western Europe was invaded by Rome on the isles of today England. British actors have a history of playing the roles of Romans in "Old-American movies", which gives Americans an even more misguided history lesson. Romans were far from being British, or English, or for that matter "American". On the back of the History book it quotes "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it".

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