what did the romans make, that help us today?
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I think you should be in the history section?\n\nThey built roads across Europe\nThe had central heating\nThey had hot water\nThey had running water\nI don't know if this is the kind of thing you are looking for or not...
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We need to emmulate ourselves about 150-200 years ago.
455001
The Romans did have common baths. The others i think the rivers for bath and fields for the rest ;)
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check out this site it might help\n\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome
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One of the great things about the Romans vast movement across Europe and Africa was they knew the only way to conquer a people was to allow for the exchange of needs. They would allow the indigenous peoples to continue practicing their religions while teaching them improvements in education,farming,building. They built trade routes to new areas and some believe that the Romans quest into the British isles, brought about their movement into the Iron Age faster, thus propelling them ahead of many other lands at that time. Most legionaries where absorbed into the local society and many stayed to help " govern" after. you can find the Roman influence in many places throughout the world,right along side the Greeks,Gauls,Egyptians and Norseman.What they used as why to conquer and provide more tax payers, we use today in our own goverment. And we know what happend to Roman.......History always repeats its self.
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Check out these websites to help you out.  THere is LOTS of information that should make this project fairly easy and fun to complete.  Have fun.! \n\nhttp://members.fortunecity.com/fstav1/photos.html\n\nhttp://www.roman-empire.net/constant/constant-index.html
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Good question.  I think the short answer is education.\nEven years ago, europe had more schools for its people.\n\nThat education enabled the people to discover more inventions\nand technology which over years compounded on itself\nto create even more improvements to their quality of life.\n\nIt also helped that the north American continent had gold\nand oil.
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The Romans were master machine builders.\n\n"They lifted heavy stones using cranes that were worked by windlasses or treadmills or the backs of men, they dredged harbors, emptied lakes, and drained swamps"\n\nI expect that they used more than one technique.  Dragging scooping sleds over the bottom when it was smooth, dragging nets when less smooth.   I imagine some sort of conveyor belt or waterwheel would have been used as well.
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The Etruscans ruled most of Italy, including Rome, until they were overthrown by the Romans.  They were said to be very promiscuous, but that's by Greek and Roman standards, since they didn't leave any written accounts of themselves.  Based on their art, they appear to have been people who appreciated the arts and all forms of leisure.  Men and women seem to have eaten together, and women were included in society functions (that's why the Greeks and Romans thought so little of them).  They invented many things we now attribute to the Romans, such as arches and aquaducts.
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well, the "whole Jesus thing" had nothing to do with the life of a female slave in Roman time. anyhow, it all depended upon how the slave owner treated you. they did not have any rights, but they could earn their freedom and actually make a significant life for themselves.\n\nthe Roman Empire really made so many significant advances. they took what they learned from groups of people all over the world- including the Greeks & Etruscans. they then molded it into something. they really advanced what they absorbed from other peoples. they were great in that aspect & with all their innovations. they weren't perfect, obviously, or they would never have fallen!\n\nyou really do need to read your text book if this is a homework question because there are many specific answers and some vary depending upon the source, especially to the second question.
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The Roman Republic. That's where they got the name for the "senate" and the idea for a two house legislature. By the way, the Romans were pagans at that time.
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Very much. While I'm no expert in Roman history, from what I remember from high school, Rome was taken down by a combination of complacent and out of touch citizens, corrupt and incompetant politicians, and a hodgepodge of smaller enemy groups that attacked them from all sides.\n\nIf that doesn't sounds familiar to Americans, we're just not paying attention at all.
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The Romans basically took their gods from the Greeks, by way of the Etruscans.  The names are different but the stories are pretty similar.
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Time to crack open the history books there...\n\nWhen the Roman Empire adopted Christianity as the state religion, they made it illegal to participate in any other religion (to control the population...that message of "render unto Ceaser..."). When new areas were conquered, the leaders, both secular and religious, were eliminated by conversion...accepting Christianity and the dominion of the Roman Empire, or dying. In order to control the conquered people, the old faiths were made illegal. \n\nNow, add in mysogeny. Males sought to control and enslave women. A woman who knew herbology and had a healing hand was a threat to male doctors' practice, or who was 'wise' was a threat to the role of the priests as givers of moral rules and advice, etc. Many of the old faiths were matriarchal, as well, and the knowledge of wise decisions, of herbology/medicine, etc. were passed woman-to-woman.\n\nWicca stems from European nature worship prior to the controls placed there by patriarchal Christianity introduced during martial conquests by the Romans (and their splinter kingdoms after the fall of the empire).\n\nAdd in the mistranslation of "do not suffer a poisoner to live" (in the Hebrew) with "do not suffer a witch to live" (that tie-in to herbology, again)...\n\nSo, modern Wiccans tap deep-rooted generational fears by Christians raised in the ancient prejudice against the "old ways." Part of it is the unfortunate choice of self-naming modern celebrants of ancient pre-Christian pantheons/nature awareness to call themselves witches.\n\nGood luck on your report!
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Wine was an integral part of the Roman diet and wine making became a precise business.  Therefore it would have been like turning water into pepsi or some other popular beveridge nowadays.  The answer to your question is a mixture of the two it was wine, but not the alcoholic drink we know now.
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The Roman Empire.\n\nAncient Rome was renowned for its roadbuilding.  Some roads still stand today, centurues later.  Ancient Rome also introduced taxes in a systematic way.\n\nThey had bridge taxes.  Bridges are convenient checkpoints that cannot be bypassed.  I don't think they had swipecards, tho.
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It stands to reason that the Gladiators of the Roman era were smaller than the football players of today.\n\nDiet, life expectancy, being major factors/evidences.\n\nAlso, the training methods and unprocessed foods would have left them much lighter than our footballers.