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How grid-based cities impacted future technology

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How grid-based cities impacted future technology

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The layout that the Romans used for these grid plans were based on something called a castrum, meaning a military camp. The cities always consistently had walls surrounding a rectangle, and streets that were organized in a grid to form residential areas. This was the beginning of city-planning and blueprints.

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The Aqueduct was built for the specific purpose of giving people, (Romans) clean water. They even had plumbing! This was revolutionary for the rest of the world.

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This is a plan of a city in Rome. Roman towns were built on star-aligned grids. The famous saying, "Rome wasn't built in a day", is true! Every spot in this plan was laid out specifically to follow strong symbolic aspects, linking to astronomy.

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The aqueduct was a Roman invention, created by Appius Claudius Caecus. An aqueduct is a structure built to convey water. The main point of the aqueduct was to give Romans clean water and to convey water from its source to a distribution point.