roman tech

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Roman technology

• How did the romans use the technology to assist
  them

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Cement

• Romans invented cement a mixture of lime volcanic
  ash and rock
• Cement is a more durable building material then
  most materials available at the time

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roads

• Roman roads were made of many layers these
  layers made the roads very durable many of the
  roads are not worn even after centuries of
  traffic

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Arches

• Romans where the first to have a wide use of
  arches because of its rounded shape it could
  hold more weight

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aqueducts

• An aqueduct is a raised canal used to carry water
  from mountains to cities because they crossed
  deep valleys they needed to be strong and many
  still stand to day

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Accomplishments

• What were the lasting impacts in each

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Government

• The lasting impact is that most democracies
  modeled after roman democracy

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Law

• Civil law is a legal system based on a written
  code of laws . Many countries in Europe use this
  same legal system

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archititechture

• Romans admired beauty some roman architecture was
  based off of Greek designs the lasting impact is
  that many of the us government buildings

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Literature

• Rome was home to many great authors an example is
  Virgil who rote the aneid romes religion

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Religion in the roman empire

• How did romans deal with judaism

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How did romans deal with the Jewish religion

• Romans practiced polytheism and also practiced
  tolerance towards the Jewish religion the Jewish
  rebelled because of taxation and rule the romans
  forced the Jews out of jurlosiliam

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How did Rome deal with Christianity

• Christianity is a religion based on the teaching
  of Jesus. The romans did not believe in the
  savior so they crucified Jesus in order to
  destroy Christianity

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The spread of Christianity

• The apostles were twelve of Jesus followers who
  spread the word of Christianity Paul of tarsus
  was the main spreader of Christianity

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The fall of Rome
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Problems in the empire

• There was to much land for the emperors to
  govern .also as they started giving up land
  Persian and Germanic warriors invaded the romans
  defended them selves from these invasions for 200
  years

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The decline of Rome

• In the 200s a group called the Huns invaded and
  forced the Goths farther into the empire the
  romans were afraid that the Goths would attack
  and destroy the empire the romans paid the Goths
  not to attack but it did not work

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The new empire

• All of Rome fell a new empire in the east rises
  up with the dream of retaking and reuniting the
  roman empire. Justian a emperor who's passion
  was reuniting Rome when his armies finally
  conquered Rome he destroyed all out of date laws
  banning Christianity and created a new legal
  system known as the justianic.