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Legacy of Rome - Coggle Diagram
Legacy of Rome
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Concrete
Concrete made many things easier and things like the Colosseum were made with it. It was an important achievement because they were able to go to more places easier.
Romans invented concrete, though the way they made it and the materials they made it of were different then how we make it today.
The Twelve Tables
This is the most important part of Roman law and it is important because it influenced many different governments.
The Twelve Tables are things that give a lot of detail about other laws and they list punishments too.
Bound books
Bound books were another Roman achievement. Instead of using rolls of parchment or scrolls, the Romans used the codex, which was a stack of bound pages. This was important because it influenced the idea and now we have books.
The first recorded codex was from when Julian Caesar used a stack of parchment as a notebook when he ruled.
Newspapers
Because Rome was so big, it took a long time for news to spread around the city. To fix this problem they made newspapers.
At that time, newspapers were written on big metal plates and published in packed places. Newspapers were important because they were a faster way of getting information out to everyone in big cities like Rome.
The Julian Calendar
The one we use now has a leap year every four years to make up for the calendar miscalculating each solar year by eleven minutes. This is important because it was one of the first calendars used and it likely inspired the Gregorian calendar.
This calendar was used more than 2,000 years ago. The Gregorian calendar is more modernized, and it is the one we use today.
The First Apartments
By 1 A.D., Rome's population reached one million and a lot of the people lived in unsteady apartments.
The apartments were very unstable and not very safe, though they were important because it helped make it possible to have a bigger population without as much land.
Cloaca Maxima
The Cloaca Maxima was the first sewage system and it was in Rome. It was originally a large and open canal but later it was covered and turned into a sewage system. Many branches parted from the main sewer to cover more ground.
This was important because it inspired things that we have today and it was a very important achievement.
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