CIVILIZATION
ROMAN
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Question
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faucet
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pipes
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canal
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aqueduct
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Detailed explanation-1: -Engineers have built aqueducts, or canals, to move water, sometimes many hundreds of miles. Actually, aqueducts aren’t a high-tech modern invention-the ancient Romans had aqueducts to bring water from the mountains above Rome, Italy to the city.
Detailed explanation-2: -aqueducts, which is Latin for waterway. These under-and aboveground channels, typically made of stone, brick, and volcanic cement, brought fresh water for drinking and bathing as much as 50 to 60 miles from springs or rivers.
Detailed explanation-3: -The first aqueduct was the Aqua Appia, erected in 312 BC by the censor Appius Claudius Caecus (c. 340 to 273 BC).
Detailed explanation-4: -Aqueducts moved water through gravity alone, along a slight overall downward gradient within conduits of stone, brick, concrete or lead; the steeper the gradient, the faster the flow.