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Roman Urbanism

A look at cities throughout the

Empire

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The Roman man in the street ate bread baked with

wheat grown in North Africa or Egypt, and fish thathad been caught and dried near Gibraltar. He cooked

with North African oil in pots and pans of copper

mined in Spain, ate off dishes fired in French kilns,

drank wine from Spain or France... The Roman ofwealth dressed in garments of wool from Miletus or

linen from Egypt; his wife wore silks from China,

adorned herself with diamonds and pearls from

India, and made up with cosmetics from South

Arabia

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Roman Empire

Extent of Roman Empire 27BC 180 AD

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Pax Romana

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The Ideology of Rome

Forum (government buildings)

Basilica

Amphitheatre Bath House

Temple

Walls and Defences

Grid-like road system

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The Forum

Rome, Italy

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Dougga, Tunisia

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BasiLicae

Lepcis Magna, North Africa

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Temples

Nimes, France

Pompeii, Italy

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AmphitHeatres

El Jem, North Africa

Verona, Italy

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Tarragona, Spain

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Bath-houses

Bath, UK

Beirut, Lebanon

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Roman Engineering

Running water Aqueducts

Roads & Bridges

Architecture Domes and Arches Materials: brick, stone, masonry, cement,

concrete and Marble

Hydraulic mining (e.g. Las Mdulas) Military camp, fort, ramparts

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Aqueducts

Segovia, Spain

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Roads & Bridges

Pompeii, Italy Bordeaux, France

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Domes &Arches

Pantheon & Colosseum Rome

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Hydraulic Mining

Las Mdulas, Spain