However, the Romans not just copied everything the Greeks had,Romans also had significant achievements of its own like politics,
law and engineering. For example, beginning in 144 B.C.E.,
the Romans invented the aqueducts which brought water
to all seven of the city’s hills making the Roman Empire one of the cleanest.
Is incredible how in that point of time the Romans had water running to their cities and in the times that we are living right now, we still have places on earth that do not have water running to their locations, which is sad. The Roman also built magnificent work such as the Colosseum and the Patheon. The Colosseum is an amphitheater. An amphitheater is a theater at both ends and therefore circular or oval in plan. To get an idea of how immense this incredible bulding is, the colosseum accommodated over fifty thousand people, each who had a clear view of the arena. The Patheon was also as I mentioned a magnificent work by the Romans. The Patheon is a large circular temple dedicated to “all the gods”. I want to major in engineering so the Romans intellectual in buildings was fascinating to me. It was definably nice to blog about chapter four, the Roman Civilization!
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ReplyDeletePerhaps one of the major reasons the Roman Civilization lasted as long as it did is because of the invention of its sewer and aqueduct systems. Waste is an enormous creator, and promoter of disease, and while perhaps the Romans were only privy to the fact that they were doing away with something that was dirty, and smelled bad – they also were removing a lot of diseases that could have easily wiped them out had the diseases been allowed to become out of control. A lack of appropriate sanitation has been linked to such horrific outbreaks as the Plague, and others. The aqueducts also provided a source of much cleaner water than what they would have otherwise had. Clean water is also crucial when it comes to preventing disease. If you drink out of a “town well,” you could also be drinking runoff from human and other animal’s waste, which would promote disease, along with other disease causing variables.
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