Roman Urbanism
Transcript of Roman Urbanism
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Roman Urbanism
A look at cities throughout the
Empire
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The Roman man in the street ate bread baked with
wheat grown in North Africa or Egypt, and fish thathad been caught and dried near Gibraltar. He cooked
with North African oil in pots and pans of copper
mined in Spain, ate off dishes fired in French kilns,
drank wine from Spain or France... The Roman ofwealth dressed in garments of wool from Miletus or
linen from Egypt; his wife wore silks from China,
adorned herself with diamonds and pearls from
India, and made up with cosmetics from South
Arabia
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Roman Empire
Extent of Roman Empire 27BC 180 AD
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Pax Romana
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The Ideology of Rome
Forum (government buildings)
Basilica
Amphitheatre Bath House
Temple
Walls and Defences
Grid-like road system
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The Forum
Rome, Italy
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Dougga, Tunisia
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BasiLicae
Lepcis Magna, North Africa
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Temples
Nimes, France
Pompeii, Italy
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AmphitHeatres
El Jem, North Africa
Verona, Italy
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Tarragona, Spain
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Bath-houses
Bath, UK
Beirut, Lebanon
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Roman Engineering
Running water Aqueducts
Roads & Bridges
Architecture Domes and Arches Materials: brick, stone, masonry, cement,
concrete and Marble
Hydraulic mining (e.g. Las Mdulas) Military camp, fort, ramparts
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Aqueducts
Segovia, Spain
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Roads & Bridges
Pompeii, Italy Bordeaux, France
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Domes &Arches
Pantheon & Colosseum Rome
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Hydraulic Mining
Las Mdulas, Spain