With the outbreak of World War II in Europe, a group of British schoolboys decide to leave their homes and board a plane to safely evacuate the area. Unfortunately, their plane is shot down. The young boys become stranded on an uninhabited island with a “tangible” fear of a “beast.” This fear distracts the boys from their main priority of building a signal fire in hopes of being rescued from the island. The existence of the “beast” allows the boys to obsess with killing this creature and increases their level of savagery.
Document 6, written by a high official of Rome, emphasizes the brilliance it took a man to construct roads that had “grace and beauty” (Doc 6). This document summarizes how the Romans viewed technology like roads with practical uses, but they cared more about the beautiful architecture of it and how it enhanced the character of Rome. Another piece technology that the Romans valued was the aqueducts as shown by document 8. A Roman general, governor, and water commissioner reports the use of their aqueducts and marvels in the water production compared to other civilizations. The Romans are rarely interested in the improvement of technology unless it benefits and brings pleasure to the entire society, or mainly the upper class.
Rome had a big impact because of medicine and science. They made many types of medicine. One to help a bad cough. One to ease pain. We have many medicines to help with headaches, scrapes, cuts, and many other pains.
But, I believe that Roman engineering and architecture has had the greatest impact on today's society. The world will come to improve on these inventions and use these to help them in their everyday lives. The Romans produced arches and domes, aqueducts, and roads that will be responsible for many modern day structures. It is clear that Roman arches and domes made an immense change to Roman life and ours. Arches were built to create a more efficient way of building certain structures.
The Roman roads also connected the Roman empire with other commercial centers of other societies. For example, a road linked the port of Berenice to Alexandria, and others connected towns and ports to Palmyra, which are important cities in an economic aspect.8 The Roman roads show a continuation from the Persian roads that were built earlier and another continuation in the future, being used for millenniums. The roads were significant in the stability of the empire, the integration, and economic prosperity by integrating several isolated regions into one grand empire and expanding that empire into the other prosperous
There are amongst many other reasons that made this very long period of peace, called Pax Romana, possible. For instance, the aqueducts are the wonderful example of their skilled city planning. These were extremely helpful structures that transported water from springs to public baths, fountains, private households, and more. Without this innovation, people would have to walk miles just to get water.
Building of canals improved the process to speed goods to market. Erie Canal was an important canal that connected the great Lakes to New York City, opening the upper Midwest to wider development. The canals were also the first transportation system between New York City along the western part of the United States. Indeed, canals was a very efficient way to transport supplies, it’s was a cheaper way. The Erie made a huge impact and contribution to the wealth of New York City.
In Ancient Rome the Romans used roads to travel around their empire 4. Roads changed not only the roman empire but the entire world. This essay is about the cause of making roads and the effects they had. Roads in the Roman empire had many uses including travel, transportation of goods, and military use. These roads spread all throughout Ancient rome and always would bring you to the city of rome 2.
Ancient Roman society had an advanced sewerage system for the time, as it had elaborated, complex sewerage systems, aqueducts, and public latrines, which all helped society’s sanitation levels. Latrine systems were essentially functioning toilets, as they were holes in benches or seats that led into pots, however poorer families may have just used pots, which could still be considered as latrines, or they could use public latrine systems, which was where a large number of holes were lined up next to each other, and provided no privacy for the citizens occupying the toilets. These played a large role in the sanitation of Rome and affected the sewerage system. Aqueducts played a major part in the sewerage system of Ancient Rome. Aqueducts were
The romans were able to build the road all around the city states. The people help building the road was improving their stamina and strength. They built the road to help the troops get around easier so that they don't have to walk in the mud or through the woods. The road was 8ft wide and 16 ft when curved. The road helped the romans travel and trade goods 2.
Providing Public Services B- Rome had many different public services for its citizens, including aqueducts, roads and gladiator fights. A plus on Rome was they provided aqueducts that were free for anyone to get fresh water. The water was transported to a public fountain where people could use buckets to get their water into their homes. The water was used for baths, sewers, and drinking water.
The sewer system, running water system, and indoor plumbing system reduced the chance of diseases from affecting the population. The roman adequates were an amazing demonstration of their ability to engineer amazing things. They would transport the water to the city, and if you were a patrician then it would go right to your house. Whenever a new city was added they would be a brand new road from the city to Rome. The Roman roads had milestones which are like signs that we use today.
Back when Rome was just a small village along the banks of the Tiber river, its geography gave it many advantages. One of the biggest of those is its location along a river. Because these were hundreds of years in B.C.E. people relied on rivers and ponds for drinking and bathing. However, rivers were much better than lakes
The innovation of aqueducts allowed the common folks of Rome accessibility to the use of water more conveniently from inner cities to rural farmers. This was a very impactful innovation for the growth of not only the expansion of people away from the major central Roman cities, but also provided greater prosperity to the poor folks who had trouble accessing resources of water to support themselves. They now had easier ways of retrieving the necessary materials to better their livelihood. The third and arguably the most significant impact that the Pax Romana had on the Empire was the advancement in architecture. The innovation of concrete was founded, and this discovery opened the door to Roman architecture we know of today.
All these minerals allowed eventually for Rome to strengthen its powers as a powerful force in the ancient world. In addition to all of that Rome developed new trade routes with the capturing of Gaul. It was located between the Mediterranean sea and near the more northern part of Europe. This had made it an important place for trade. It was so important because the Mediterranean was the main spot where all trade would flow through.
