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The Civilization Of Ancient Rome, The City Of Rome

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Rome, the capital of Italy, is a bustling cosmopolitan city with nearly 3,000 years of influential art, distinguishable architecture, and captivating culture. Ancient Rome spanned three continents; Europe, Africa, and Asia. With beginnings as a tribe in central Italy and evolving into a republic (ruled by an oligarchy) and later an empire (ruled by a “temporary” dictator or a emperor) they developed the characteristics of a thriving civilization. The romans prized societal order or a hierarchal system; the senate, citizens, then slaves. The ancient civilization modeled their religious and intellectual beliefs (dualism) from Greece and the Persians. The modernly visible ancient ruins like the colosseum or the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus evoke the power and culture of what was then, the Roman Empire and its cities. Ancient Roman cities were built with grand public buildings in the center, surrounded by blocks of; homes, coliseums, markets, theaters, and municipal water supplies (bath houses). City lifestyle, while lively and vibrant, could also be described as noisy, congested, and quite expensive. The cities were surrounded by walls for protection and geography purposes. The homes surrounding the cities center were structures with opened roofs, engineered to catch rain water for drinking purposes, while facing away from the streets they occupied to reduce the noise. Much of the congestion among citizens occurred in the municipal water supplies that supplied them

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