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Roman Empire Research Paper

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“All roads lead to Rome,” this saying can reflect how great the ancient Rome Empire was. For more than five hundred years, the Roman Empire was the greatest empire in the world at that time. Its territory included all the land which surrounds the Mediterranean Sea, which are the Italian peninsula, Greece, Spain, Egypt, and Asia Minor. Besides, the Britain was a part of this great empire’s territory, too. However, nothing last forever, the Roman Empire had collapsed. Although the empire was no longer exist, it left many legacies for later human societies, such as Roman architecture, Roman art, and Roman language. In my opinion, the Roman architecture was the greatest legacy of the ancient Rome Empire. It inferences people’s ideas of how to build …show more content…

Many of these constructions were a response to the changing practical needs of Roman society, and these projects were all backed by a state apparatus (Cartwright). Some of the Roman city settled inland on the peninsula, and they were far away from rivers or any other water sources. So that the Romans have figured out a way to solve this problem, they built aqueducts. The Romans constructed numerous aqueducts in order to bring water from the water sources to some distant cities and towns to supply their daily water supply. To keep the towns clean and free from effluent, the wastewater was removed by a sewage system and released into nearby bodies of water. The Romans used their revolution of arches in their aqueducts. For example, the Roman provincial Aqueduct of Segovia, Spain used many arches to strengthen it, this was one of the reasons it can still stand perfectly in modern Spain …show more content…

It is located in the center of the city of Rome, Italy. Its shape is an elliptical amphitheater. It was built for people to watch wrestle between people and people or people with animal or animal between animal. This construction is the symbolization of ancient Rome civilization, as same as the Great Wall is the symbolization of ancient Chinese civilization; the pyramid is the symbolization of the ancient Egyptian civilization. The Colosseum was built from concrete and stone. It has three stairs, each stair has eighty arches, constituted three different altitudinal hallways. The eighty arches from each stair constituted eighty doors, these doors provide audiences find their seats orderly. The entire amphitheater can seat ninety thousands spectators, however, because the good design of the doors and sets, the phenomenon of crowding and disorder will never happen in that amphitheater. The design was so good, that modern football stadium still use this feature (Frey). The Colosseum has an underground waterline to transfer water, it even can transfer water into the acting area, so that they can imitate the scene of the sea

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