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5. Rome and it's relations to modern society today

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5. Rome and it's relations to modern society today

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Rome was a heavy influence to many things that we have today. Today, for engineering, us today see bridges everywhere we go; on highways, small ones over streams, Or ones that are as long as the Golden Gate bridge. Roads are everywhere today, and aqueducts today are just the water system and sewage. Architecture Today is highly based on the Romans, where there are amphitheaters, like the Colosseum. The Pantheon, which is basically the Churches but more than those. A Basilica is just a meeting board, jury, court, or a normal meeting hall. Our Government is just like the Romans where they have classification, like us; Lower minorities, working people, higher workers (Scientists, Doctor, etc), then the very high like politicians, Senate, House of Representatives, and the President. We also have Higher class, like the government people, like Senate, judges, and we are a democracy like them-ish. In retrospect we are just like the Romans in way. The Romans influences a lot on us today.

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A frescoes painting was a work of art that were painted on the walls. Most of the time, these were only painted in those that were wealthy and could afford one. These were not just a part of the wall and was the whole wall painted. These wore off over time but they were found in the ruins of Pompeii. these usually showed Gods, or people like Gods.

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Roman Sculptures were made for realism, and were made to look like Gods or famous people of Rome. They were taken care of deeply because these represented the God, and were protected. Sculptures were meant to be very realistic in who are what the actual figure looked like, or what they thought they looked like. Any Citizen could have one of themselves f they could afford it themselves. However, the emperor had many of the sculptures of himself.

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mosaics were many rocks put together painted in different colors to represent a larger picture or an end representation. they got this idea from the Greeks but the Romans were very successful in making many mosaics. The stones were usually cut so it would shape better. These Mosaics were usually put for the floors and they explicit showing Gods, famous people, or Legends.

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The Roman Republic known for their imperialism, and not their democracy. However, they did implement democracy in their voting system. They did have a large amount of people's participation. The Roman Empire did seem like a democracy, with the Senate, and voting, but the poorer and the woman or minority groups were not able to be part of the political view.

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The Patricians are made of  different classes themselves. There are the Consuls, which are the highest class of all. It is the two people who govern all of Rome. There are the magistrates who keep laws and manage the financial affairs of Rome. Next there are the Tribunes who are the people who try to make sure the people are

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the Romans had a different type of classification than normal feudalism. This had three classes. The Patricians, Plebeians, and slaves. Patricians were the wealthy side of Rome. They had great housing, food, and had slaves. The Plebeians were not wealthy, but were people like craftsmen, merchants, or tradesmen. They were given Roman citizen rights so they could go and vote. Slaves are what they are. Slaves that are owned by Patricians.

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A Basilica is a court of law that persecutes the criminals. It was also used for public meetings. It was also had a raised platform for important people to sit on. It was used as a classroom, and had other meetings. Outside the Basilica, the people would sell things or exchange money. The St. Peter Basilica was known for the burial St. Peter, one of Jesus's apostle. There were many basilicas in the empire of Rome because of the all of the cities.

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The Pantheon was a temple that was burned thrice after it was made and it was built multiple times. It was a very symbolic place and had a hole on the top of the dome. This brings in the sun and "tells the time." Also, if it rains, it also has a drain on the top in case it rains. It has the structure that the USA has used for countless of important building, including the Lincoln Memorial.

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The Roman Colosseum is still one of the grandest theatrical stadiums in the world. The Colosseum was built like a bowl so many could sit among it's outer rings and edges. It was made like a type of amphitheater and to distract the poor from the poverty. It was give as a gift from a dynasty but the Romans refined it with trapdoors, chambers, etc.

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The Romans first adopted roads to travel around with hundreds of kilometers apart of cities. The Romans built over 120,000 km of roads during the empire. It was created by digging a straight path between each city, and then creating big stones shortly apart from each other. After that, they would fill up the remaining spots with small pebbles.

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An ancient Roman aqueduct was made to transport water from a river or stream to the cities. Due to the large amount of growth of the Roman Republic/Empire, the issue was water, because transportation of water would be crucial to live throughout all of Rome. Water was used for various reasons, like manufacturing, keeping out waste, agriculture, etc. Rome had to give water to all of Rome, which was about 1,000,000 people.

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Rome had a lot of cities, No doubt, and traveling between them was crucial for the sake of communications. Bridges were created after the wonders of arches were discovered. With the discovery of the arch bridge, they made them all over Europe, Asia, and many other places, and made over 900 of them!
They even used arches for buildings and other things too.