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Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Facts of Roman Civilization

  • By 300 A.D, Rome had 28 libraries, 46,602 private houses and 144 pubilc toilets.
  • The Cloaca Maxima ( main sewer ) was so big that you could along it in a boat.
  • Hadrian's Wall took seven years to build, and used 770,000 cubic metres of stone.
  • Roman soldiers had to pay for their own food and cook it themselves.
  • The dome of the Pamtheon is 43 metres high and weighs more than 5000 tonnes.
  • The Roman people invented roman numbers.
  • The

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