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How Did The Romans Build Rome

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Roman Aqueducts In the early days of the Roman Empire, the Romans had face huge logistical problems. The first problem was for the empire was how to get goods from point A to point B. They could just build roads for dry goods and wine, but for water they had to lay pipe lines. They also did this because of sanitation. The Romans built the world's first mass sewer system. This essay is all about is all about they roman waterways. The romans were not the very first people to build waterways. They were not the the first to build sewers. But they, like the Wright Brothers and the airplane, they were the first to put it all together. It dates back all the way to the prime of the Fertile Crescent. The people of that area were the first to put …show more content…

They built the bridges that are still usable today which is just amazing. Other empires like the Nazi empire built megastructures out of reinforced concrete ( concrete with steel inside) and the romans built their bridges out of limestone and they still are standing after 2,000 years so, that is saying something evan by my standards.
According to my source”The romans had the water running downhill or under extreme pressure. That way it always keeps moving. The way they kept it under pressure was forcing too much water into a small pipe therefore it will travel much faster.” This is the way that the Roman fountains worked. It gets pushed by other water particles push on other water particles to make it go faster down the pipe. (It sowns confusing to most people, at least most people that read my stuff don’t understand.)
Some of the challenges that the engineers had to face were not challenges like other empires in my opinion. The romans had to deal with the problem of getting people motivated to do it. The main bulk of the building force is mainly slave labor. And towards the end of the Roman empire they kept building more and more stuff, and they just did not have the resources, the money, but the Romans did it anyway and it is just

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