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Roman engineers designed and built many structures to improve life in the empire.
They built durable roads, strong bridges and aqueducts.
Aqueducts are "human-made channels that carried water from distant mountain ranges into Rome or other cities

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The skill of ancient Roman engineers inspired many later peopleto copy their techniques

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Architecture is the art of designing buildings, it is closely related to engineering.Roman architects borrowed Greek ideas and wanted their building beautiful. Romans added an innovation of their own.
Innovation is "a new idea or way of doing something

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Later civilizations admire the Roman architectural style, copying many elements of Roman design in their own buildings. Elements of Roman design are seen in many public buildings even today

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Architecture was not the only field in which the Roman were inspired by the Greeks. Roman artists tried to make their art incredibly realistic. Some roman portraits are so lifelike that viewers can even tell what's the subject's personality was like.

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For centuries, artists have studied Roman works to learn how to make their own works more realistic

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Roman philosophers, or other thinkers, wanted to show the world as it really was. They disagree with earlier Greek philosophers who spent their time thinking about ideal worlds. Roman philosophers are thinking about how their ideas could improve people's life. They advised people how they should behave in order to be happy. A large group of philosophers called the stoics taught that people shouldn't be concerned with possessions. Romans thought they should focus on living a virtuous life.

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The group's idea influenced the Roman idea of civic duty.