Aquaducts

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Aquaducts are used to carry water to cities. The waters move by gravity, sometimes they required bridges. If you were living in Rome, your house would contain water from these aquaducts, you could use it for bath water and some other uses like drinking water etc.

As you see in the picture they have a odd strucutre, they were mad out of arches for strong support. The arches are smaller at the top because they are holdign less weight.

If you were a upper class citezen the size of your water pipe would be larger, if you were a lower class citezen you would have less water. This is one of the greatest engeneering features of rome.