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media type="youtube" key="c4viREYaegU" height="281" width="372" align="right" Ancient Roman’s made great use of aqueducts, dams, bridges, and amphitheaters. They were also responsible for many innovation’s to roads, sanitation, and construction in general. Almost all of Roman architecture was influenced by the Etruscans. Most of the columns and arches seen in famous Roman architecture were originally idea’s by the Etruscan civilization.
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__ROADS__: media type="youtube" key="Yu94sFmNwMw?rel=0" height="329" width="375" align="right" Roman’s also built quite successful road’s which were a big advancement that are what the world uses for a major percentage of our transportation today. They built the roads mostly for the military. Wagon traffic was also banned from the roads to preserve military value.The total length of the roads at its highest point totaled 53,000 miles. The roads were constructed by digging a pit along the roadway. The pit was first filled with rocks, gravel, or sand and then a layer of concrete. To finish the road it was paved with polygonal rock slabs.



__AQUEDUCTS__: media type="youtube" key="oTMrfyAt6Mo?rel=0" height="251" width="348" align="right"An aqueduct is a water supply or navigable channel constructed to move water. A modern comparison to these would be canals, pipes, and ditches. These could also be used as transport links to move ship’s across the waterway. The aqueducts that were used in Rome combined to be over 500 miles long. Although most of them are not used today a lot of them are still standing. The word aqueduct comes from the Latin meaning of aqua (“water”) and ducere (“to lead”).

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A dam is a barrier that impounds water or underground streams. Dams generally serve as the primary purpose of retaining water while dikes are used to manage or prevent water flow into specific land regions. The way that the Roman’s used their dams were as reservoir dams which could secure a permanent water supply for urban settlements also over the dry season. Their pioneering use of water-proof hydraulic mortar and particularly Roman concrete allowed for much larger dam structures than previously built.

media type="youtube" key="WlHmrwx-2aI" height="312" width="384" Roman Bath

These baths were for the public in ancient Rome. People would come to these baths to become clean, but also it could be a social hour. Smaller bathing areas were privately owned and were used for the higher social ranking classes. The bigger bathing areas, anyone could use, it wouldn’t matter on your social class. At the bathing areas Roman men had all their hair plucked off their body. A Roman man was not allowed to have any hair on their body, except for his head, this was done by the slaves.

__BRIDGES__: The bridges built by Romans are included in the first large and lasting bridges. Romans used stone to build the basic structure of an arch. Many of the bridges also included concrete and were usually at least sixty feet above water. The oldest Roman stone bridge is named Ponte Rotto which means broken bridge, it was built in 142 BC in Rome Italy. The Trajan’s bridge is the biggest Roman bridge. This lasted for over a millennium, which is the longest bridge to be built in both terms of overall span length.



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