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Roman engineers design and built many cool things that inspired us today. They built things that lasted for hundreds of years, that are still visible to this day.

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The profession of designing buildings, open areas, communities, and other artificial constructions and environments, usually with some regard to aesthetic effect.
Roman Architecture:
In the Roman Empire, the Romans  found and created new ways of doing their everyday things like building, farming ect., that revolutionized the way many people did the same things they did in the future. The Romans created domes, concrete, arch, public buildings and more.

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By definition, art is the various branches of creative activity, such as painting, music, literature, and dance. It wasn't just building- or architecture, it was also paintings. Roman artists were particularly good at portraits, as well as scu

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A government is a group of people that runs or governs a community, nation, or a state. The government makes economic rules, such as paying and collecting taxes, property rights, issuing money, and more. In this case, for the Romans to govern  their republic and keep control of the citizens, they had to set up a government.

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Man-made conduit for carrying water. In a restricted sense, aqueducts are structures used to conduct a water stream across a hollow or valley. In modern engineering, however, aqueduct refers to a system of pipes, ditches, canals, tunnels, and supporting structures used to convey water from its source to its main distribution point. Such systems generally are used to supply cities and agricultural lands with water. Aqueducts have been important particularly for the development of areas with limited direct access to freshwater sources. Historically, aqueducts helped keep drinking water free of human waste and other contamination and thus greatly improved public health in cities with primitive sewerage systems.

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What is a dome? A dome is a rounded vault forming the roof of a building or structure, typically with a circular base.
This is an example of one of the Romans greatest achievements, the Pantheon. The pantheon is basically one big dome. So why are domes so important? It's is because the Romes built domes for their monumental building like the pantheon most likely for a government building, and also for the  United States of America Capital state building in Washington D.C today. Now you're probably wondering, how did the Romans make these huge domes? The Romans made these big buildings by first creating arches and then formed a roof with arches which were called vaults. The Romans used the principles of the arch to make it into a hemispherical shape which they made/called domes.
* Picture of a dome*

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An arch is a  curved symmetrical structure spanning an opening and typically supporting the weight of a bridge, roof, or wall above it. Why did the Romans create arches? The Romans used arches to create bigger and larger buildings, just like the coliseums. But why is it that the Romans built the coliseums out of arches, why not regular planks? They built it out of arches because the arches were able to hold more heavier structures like the coliseums. If they had built the coliseums out of planks the whole thing would just break  and fall down as they're building it. These arches were made out of a material called concrete. Concrete made was able to bend  in all kinds of shapes which made making arches easier for the Romans to build them and it also was a strong material.
*Example of an arch*

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Concrete is heavy, rough building material made from a mixture of broken stone or gravel, sand, cement, and water, that can be spread or poured into molds and that forms a mass resembling stone on hardening. The Romans created concrete because the materials used in it made it so that the concrete could mold into pretty much anything the Romans wanted, from little statues to huge coliseums. Concrete revolutionized the way the Romans built most of their buildings, because the concrete was one, easy to work with, two, the material was heavy and good for building big structures successfully and easily, and three it was easy to make and cheap.
*Picture of concrete*

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What are roads? Roads were a path to another city or place, but without having a difficult time going through a forest. What were they used for? They were used for a lot of thing, like trading or going to a enemy's city so they can attack. They built them out of  stone, gravel, dirt. Now you are wondering to yourself how did they build this. They build them, it took them awhile.

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The Romans have a huge effect on today's society around the world, we use lots of their creations and achievements today that I have no mentioned, like aqueducts, public buildings and more. Inn today's society, you can see these in side walks, public buildings, roads, streets highways, theaters ect. The Romans also found ways of improving everyday life like the aqueducts which they used to transfer water to different cities. Now we used the idea of aqueducts to create our own version of it to make water systems and sewer systems. We like the Romans did, used concrete to form different structures and to make roads to make traveling easier. In conclusion, the Romans architecture has revolutionized the way many people build and create structures, roads, buildings and more.
* picture of a highway*

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Roman portraiture is characterized by unusual realism and the desire to convey images of nature in high quality style. As the textbook, "Medieval to Early Modern Times" mention on page 28, some Roman artists were so good at portraits, it was as though you could what see the subject's personality was like. Republican Rome embraced imperfection in portraiture because, though there were different levels of power each class of society had, everybody had little insecurities, this type of untouched physical representation fostered a sense of community by implying that while there were existing inequalities, that did not change the fact that they were Romans.

Portrait of a Lady from Rome-

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What are bridges? Well you already know what they are, but do know what Roman Bridges are? They were bridges to cross over a river or lake. They were built by Roman soldiers who were going to enemy base and they needed to cross. So they built bridges to get over ponds, lakes, and rivers. Instead of walking through them, that will waste their time.

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Some of things that inspire us from the Romans were roads and bridges. We have roads that connect mostly everywhere around the world. The roads for cars and the sidewalk to walk to a place and another. Bridges also impact society, without the we won't be able to cross a big lake and have to around it. You see, bridges help us and don't waste our time. The Romans were a big thing in human history and without them we would not be having these things. Or maybe will figure out latter, anyways. The Romans were a big impact in history and am glad they were here.

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The Roman government changed over time. Rome started with a kingdom and then changed to a republic. A republic is a government where people choose their leaders by voting. They were divided into different classes, such as, Patricians, Plebeians, and Slaves. Patricians were wealthy and were citizens of Rome, and had plenty of free time because slaves did most of their work. Plebeians were not wealthy, but still were citizens of Rome. Slaves were the laborers of Rome and had no freedom. Because the Patricians and Plebeians were citizens of Rome, they were able to vote.
- This picture shows the citizens of Rome voting.

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Many people wanted to be a citizen of Rome. To be a citizen, they would have to be granted by the leaders or emperors. Citizens were so grateful to be a citizen because laws protected the rights of them, they were able to vote, and they can hold office. Although, being a Roman citizen had some advantages, these citizens also had jobs to do. They had to pay taxes and go into the army, when needed.
- This is a picture of some of the Roman Citizens.

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Since the Roman government had to keep control of their citizens and people of Rome, they made laws. Everyone knew these laws, so officials treated everyone equally. The laws were for people to follow and to help protect citizen's rights. Some examples of some laws are, every citizen had the right to challenge their accusers in court and, if you were called to court, you must go.
- This is a picture of Roman citizens in court.

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The Romans have influenced our government today by many ways. Present day, are government is organized into three branches, legislative branch, executive branch, and the judicial branch. We got this idea from the Romans. Another example of how the Roman government impacted our lives today is with some of their laws and their idea of voting. Overall, the Roman government has impacted our lives today in many ways.
- This is a description and picture of the branches of Rome. Today, we still organize our government like this.

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Roman sculpting, also called portraiture, was known also for its extremely realistic detail. As the portraits, you could see their personality with their facial expression, or even just the tilt of their head.  Besides wax, masks were made from bronze, marble and terracotta. The molds for the masks were made directly from the deceased, giving historians an accurate representation of typically Roman features, sculptures were also made from these materials.

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The definition of mosaic is a picture or pattern produced by arranging together small colored pieces of hard material, such as stone, tile, or glass. The Romans would sometimes have these in their house as a sign or wealth, or public places such as buildings or bath houses had these. These mosaics were often very detailed and made up of hundreds, even thousands of tiny stones, making them complicated and difficult to make. Although these were so intricate, they were still a very popular and common piece of art throughout Rome. Lastly,Designers of Roman mosaics were considered craftsmen, not artists. Unlike artists they would not sign their work or take credit for it.

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Though it may not seem like it, Roman art still has a bit of a connection to the present day. Mosaics are one of the main things we still see around today, whether it be on a church window, the floor of a bathroom, or the walls at your school. When you go about your everyday life, you may not even notice we have these things, some buildings may have a statue- or sculpture in front of it, your history classroom may have portraits of the US presidents, and lastly, there may be a mosaic about social justice by your library. Speaking of, our school has a mosaic about social justice by the library, which is art.