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Wheat was the main crop grown in Rome, typically harvested by slave labor

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Rome was a democracy, made up of the Senate, the Consuls, and the Assemblies

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Latin was the primary language spoken in Rome

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Amphitheaters were a big part of Roman entertainment, hosting gladiator fights. This is also another example of their arches

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Another major architectural element of Rome was the dome shape, still widely used to this day

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The Romans invented the mosaic art form, the act of putting pieces of glass together to form a picture

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Virgil wrote the epic poem the Aeneid, a staple of Roman literature

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Romans used volcanic rock to strengthen their concrete to make it even stronger than ours now

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Constantine was the first emperor to accept Christianity and he moved the capital to Byzantium, which he renamed Constantinople

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Augustus changed the Roman Republic into and empire and became the first emperor

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Aqueducts are an example of Roman arches being put to prominent use, a water irrigation strategy

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An example of Roman architecture still seen today is arches, which were used often in their buildings

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Roman numerals, while having widely been replaced by Arabic numerals, are still used in many places to this day

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Rome gave us one of the earliest examples of something close to our modern-day calendar

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Rome gave us the idea of paved roads, raised sidewalks, and crosswalks

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The Roman social structure was split up into three main classes, the patricians (those with the most power), the plebeians (those with basic power), and the slaves (those with very little power)

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Similar to our modern Constitution, the Twelve Tables were a baseline set of laws that would be referred back to often

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This is a representation of the amount of land the Roman Empire had conquered at its largest in 117 AD