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Roman Contributions

Art & Architecture

Pantheon

Built as a temple to the gods of Ancient Rome

Colosseum

Capable of seating 50,000 onlookers, the Colosseum was used for gladiatorial contests and public spectacles.

Forum

A recantular place surrounded by the ruins of several important ancient government buildings at the center of the city of Rome.

Technology

Appian Way

This road was one of the earliest and strategically most important Roman roads of the ancient republic. It connected Rome to Brindisi, Apulia, in southeast Italy.

Aqueducts

The Romans constructed numerous aqueducts to serve any large city in their empire, as well as many small towns and industrial sites. They served drinking water and supplied numerous baths.

Roman Arches

Roman arches enabled the ancient Romans to rear vast edifices with the humblest materials, to build bridges, aqueducts, sewers, amphitheatres, and triumphal arches, as well as temples and palaces.

Science

Achievements of Ptolemy

Stated that the universe revolved around the Earth. It was called the Geocentric model.

Medicine

Public Water Systems

The Roman Empire is in many ways the highest point of sewage management in the ancient world. Famous for public baths and latrines with quite complex engineering, Rome also excelled in the use of covered drains for storm water and sewage.

Medical Schools

Romans came up with one of the best and most sophisticated Medical Systems of the Ancient World. The science of medicine and the human body was evolving.

Language

Vulgar Latin

Romans spoke in a less polished language than they used in their literature.

The simplified Latin language of the common (Roman) people is called "Vulgar Latin" because vulgar is an adjectival form of the Latin for "the crowd."

Literature

Virgil's Aeneid

The Aeneid tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans.

The first six of the poem's twelve books tell the story of Aeneas's wanderings from Troy to Italy, and the poem's second half tells of the Trojans' ultimately victorious war upon the Latins, under whose name Aeneas and his Trojan followers are destined to be subsumed.

Law

Early Roman law dealt mostly with strengthening the rights of Roman citizens. But as the empire got bigger, the Romans came to believe that laws should be fair and apply equally to all people, rich and poor.

Some of the important principles of Roman law were:

  • Everyone had the right to equal treatment.
  • A person was considered innocent until proven guilty.
  • The burden of proof rested with the accuser rather than the accused.
  • A person should only be punished for actions, not thoughts.
  • Any law that seemed unreasonable or grossly unfair could be set aside.
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