kuryshevaqueducts

// How to: Survive the Aqueducts of Rome !!! //     Home Roads CircusMaximas Trajan Lif of a Soldier Life of an Artisan  //You should be familiar with water pipes and faucets at home, but//  // Rome is not that different. They have aqueducts which carry water for hundreds of miles from high water sources to Rome. Unlike at home though, aqueducts leave water at the rich homes, the baths, and a public water source. You will need to know that because you can’t get water at your house if you can’t afford it. Next matter to take care of is that AQUEDUCTS ARE NOT SLIDES and extreme injuries could take place if you fall off. For the third matter of business you must realize that the aqueducts a  re only possible because of the arch because otherwise the Romans would have needed to stack a lot of stone which takes much longer. The arch made it stand for the minimum of the cost. The aqueducts started in a mountain spring and with a small lowering would make it all the way back to Rome. Once at Rome the water would split into three channels and travel to the rich, baths, and public well. If a drought took place and no water went to the spring and Rome, specific people would shut the water off to the rich first, then the baths, and the public well was never shut off. So if you’re ever stuck in Rome remember that if you need water do not go directly to the aqueducts because they are merely used to retrieve the water. Go to the well. // //Remember to protect the squirrels// MYK was here



The Roman Aqueducts. Sources: Googled images and ABC clio for words