Ancient Roman Life Outline

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topic # pg# Roman life
Guy, John. Roman life. Hauppauge, NY: Barron's Educational Series, 1998. Print.
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18 water is used for baths
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2 giant aqueducts come into town
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27 central heating
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^ based on hot air rises
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^ heats both water and air

topic # pg# Murrell, Deborah Jane. The best book of ancient Rome. Boston: Kingfisher, 2004. Print
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26/27 treadmill is made mostly of wood some metal and ropes
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^ cranes look just like our modern day cranes (treadmill inside of the cranes)
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^ has a large wheel at the bottom where the men would walk inside to power the crane
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^ looks like a hamsters wheel in its cage
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^ slaves would run or walk inside the wheel to make the crane work
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^ there are many ropes and pulleys to make this crane work
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Imperial Rome. Rev. ed. New York: Gloucester Press, 1985. Print.
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18 a flow of water going into a town
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^ above ground arches of brick or stone

topic # pg# Ancient rome
James, Simon. Ancient Rome. New York: Knopf :, 1990. Print.
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27 people go to public fountains to get water in buckets for house
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^ the rich people got pipes running to there house
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^ a system of lead pipes brought water to their houses using gravity
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^ dirty water was carried away underground
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^ concrete channel (pic in book)

topic # pg# The Roman Empire
Hodgson, Chris. The Roman Empire. London: Hodder & Stoughton Educational, 2002. Print.
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18
2 million liters a day is brought in per day

topic # pg# Look around the Roman Villa
Bingham, Jane. Look around a Roman villa. Mankato, Minn.: Arcturus, 2008. Print.
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17 under the floor heating
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^ hot air warmed by furnace in the basement
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^ so hot that the would have to wear wooden sandals
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^ spread through brick channels
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^ slave that kept the furnace stocked
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^ slaves often collapsed or died while doing ^
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16 burning charcoal

topic # pg# Step into the Roman Empire
Steele, Philip, and Jenny Hall. Step into-- the Roman Empire. New York: Lorenz Books, 1997.
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The ancient Romans. Chicago: Heinemann Library, 1999. Print.
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31 aqueduct in spain over 36 meters above the street
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2 layers of arches
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^ looked for lake or river that was above the town
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^ ined channel with concrete to prevent leaks
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30 made in arches to hold the weight of the water running across it

Websites topic # pg# "Experts you should follow." Answers. Answers Corporation, n.d. Web. 23 Sept. 2014. <http://www.answers.com/Q/How_much_water_does_an_Olympic_sized_swimming_pool_hold>.
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2.5 megalitres of water to fill an olympic size pool same as the amount of water brought into the town

topic # pg# "http://www.unc.edu/~duncan/personal/roman_mining/deep-vein_mining.htm." http://www.unc.edu/~duncan/personal/roman_mining/deep-vein_mining.htm. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Sept. 2014. <http://www.unc.edu/~duncan/personal/roman_mining/deep-vein_mining.htmFind a website by URL or keyword...>.

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Approximately 19 gallons of water per minute could flow through the water wheel
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The water wheel’s compartments would fill up with water at the bottom of the wheel that was in the lake or river through holes in the sides
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as the men would power it (walk on the treads) the wheel would spin

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