hand, block by block.

In my opinion, that’s

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Let’s start out with the fancy techy
advancements. The Romans were
pretty impressive.

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From their mythology to the technical
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things and they were wicked good at taking
something from another culture, copying it,
and refining that technology to make it
awesome. This skill made them one of the
most technologically advanced peoples of
their time. Here are a few examples:
One of their many amazing
achievements was the aqueducts, which
were designed to bring water from far
away in the mountains and springs and
bring it back to the city for use.

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Type of Trip Price Per You see, these were so cool

Day because (1) they were so big, (2) they
carried water effectively, and (3) they went
Budget $116 on for miles.
One aqueduct, that fed the City of
Medium $219 Rome, went on for about 70 miles. It was
called Aqua Traiana and it was built by
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 One aqueduct, that fed the City of
Rome, went on for about 70 miles. It was
called Aqua Traiana and it was built by
hand, block by block. In my opinion, that’s
pretty impressive.
Another one of Rome’s cool
achievements was their concrete. Their
recipe was one of the recipes used up until
Portland concrete was invented in 1824,
which is the kind used by just about
everyone today. It was a major thing
because it meant that they could build
larger stone structures because they could
keep the stone together better.
Here’s a fun one: Mythology.
There’s a wealth of stories and myths the
Romans had and they mainly focused on
these 12 primary Gods, which is
demonstrated below, along with their
Greek equivalents. You see, the Romans,
as you may know, used the policy of
Syncretism, which is basically when they
took the Greek religion and twisted, bent,
and combined their religion with their
existing religion to make a new, better
religion.

The picture above shows you how Roman God Greek Equal
an aqueduct works. The Romans typically
fed their aqueducts from a spring up in the Jupiter Zeus
mountains. This provided a high spot to
start the downward slope and the water Apollo Apollo
from the springs were (and are) very clean
so it’s like their own personal purified Venus Aphrodite
water source.
Vesta Hestia
 owned by the wealthy nobles, also known
as aristocrats, but also if it produced the
Vulcan Hephaestus highest quality and most profitable
product.
Ceres Demeter

Diana Artemis

Mercury Hermes

Mars Ares
Neptune Poseidon
Juno Hera
Minerva Athena
Let’s move on to their farming
practices, shall we? Though it may not
seem like an interesting subject, it is
actually quite entertaining. Did you know
that there were many different farm
animals employed by the Romans?
Because there were many types, such as
oxen and donkeys for the heavy-duty jobs,
bees that provided sugar, cows, for milk,
That is a picture of a typical
Roman farm, probably one of the larger
and ones, also known as Latifunda. It’s pretty
finally sheep and goats. They were used to much like how rich people have solid gold
produce milk and for their hides which toilets or living, platinum and diamond
were used to make clothing and wine encrusted mini-giraffes. They have them,
sacks, which they used to transport wine, not only for the use of it but also for the
like a canteen. Farmers didn’t really use fact of saying “look at me I am so rich that
horses, but the richer people raised them to is can afford this!” That’s all they were
race or for the military. Also did you know really saying but they also did have them
that owning land was a sign of importance because of the fact that it is a form of
in Roman society? income and as a way to get some food,
even though they most likely bought their
food and drink from a market but a good
Type of farm Size
chunk of them would keep a portion of
their product for themselves because, well,
Small 18-108 jugera*
why not? You (forced slaves) to make that
Medium 80-500 jugera product so why not keep some and “sample
the product”?
Large 500+ jugera

*Roman unit of area, it’s about .65 acres.

It gave you a high status not only if

you had a larger farm which were typically
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Sources:
Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page.
“Roman Agriculture.”(Wikipedia page) Ms.
Jomelacas (I know I spelled her name
wrong) in Western Civ. class.