| ▲ | Miraste 5 days ago |
| >Did they improve sanitation, irrigation, medicine etc.? They built a network of aqueducts that was the largest in the world for a thousand years. The plumbing and sewage systems they installed in their cities were so effective that some are not just intact, but in use, right now. There are plenty of negative points you can raise about the Roman Empire, but water systems aren't one of them. |
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| ▲ | bigiain 5 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| But apart from the aqueducts, what have the Romans ever done for us? |
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| ▲ | notarealllama 5 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Okay, but apart from orthography and aquaducts, what have the Romans ever done for us? Now as punishment go write this on the wall 100 times! | | |
| ▲ | mrandish 5 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Seeing the comedy beats of that scene play out on HN, first unintentionally and then intentionally, has made my day! | |
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| ▲ | baud147258 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | well, being part of the Roman Republic/Empire meant peace, even if it was enforced at the tip of a pilum. And the population under the Empire were more prosperous and numerous, so much that the collapse of the Empire in the West had long-lasting negative consequences (I'm mostly basing my opinion off this article: https://acoup.blog/2022/02/11/collections-rome-decline-and-f...) | | |
| ▲ | ihaveajob 5 days ago | parent [-] | | Ok, but beside the aqueducts, orthography and lasting peace, what good were the Romans for us? | | |
| ▲ | arethuza 5 days ago | parent [-] | | Dirty great walls - which some of us are on the "wrong" side of ;-) |
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| ▲ | 71bw 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| >some are not just intact, but in use, right now. Thanks for giving me something to research at work. What query do you recommend I put into a search engine? "intact aqueducts italy" doesn't seem to help much |
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| ▲ | Miraste 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | | I was particularly thinking of the Aqua Virgo, an aqueduct to Rome that supplies city fountains to this day, and the Cloaca Maxima, a sewer and drainage system that has been in operation since it was built two thousand years ago | |
| ▲ | botzi2001 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aqueducts_in_the_Roman... | |
| ▲ | soyyo 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Start by expanding the countries in your search. At its peak, the roman empire covered Europe, North Africa, and parts of Eurasia. In Spain the most famous is the one in Segovia, it is incredibly well conserved, but not in actual use. | |
| ▲ | SonOfLilit 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Why Italy? There are (inactive) roman aqueducts as far away as Israel |
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| ▲ | lo_zamoyski 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| And let us not forget about Roman law. |
