HISTORY
ANCIENT ROME
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Question
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Colosseum
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Circus Maximus
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Pantheon
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Made entirely out of concrete, without the reinforcing support of structural steel, no modern engineer would dare attempt such a feat, says David Moore, author of The Roman Pantheon: The Triumph of Concrete.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Pantheon is situated on the site of an earlier structure of the same name, built around 25 B.C. by statesman Marcus Agrippa, and is thought to have been designed as a temple for Roman gods.
Detailed explanation-3: -There is no firm evidence of ancient cult buildings designed to worship the entire pantheon of gods in one place, and writing just 100 years after its inauguration the Roman historian Cassius Dio opined that the building had been so titled instead ‘because its dome resembles the heavens.