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Uses of the ancient roman aqueducts

Aqueducts- Slaves- Colosseum- Life as a Roman soldier- Road Roman weapons and supplies-Home-Emperor If you suddenly get caught in ancient Rome, you will need to know where a water source is. Luckily in Rome they have aqueducts. Aqueducts artificial channels that are constructed to transfer water from one location to another. They are kind of like your household faucets, just you would have to come out of your house with a pitcher or something of the sort, and fill the pitcher up kind of like a well.

These are some useful tips on aqueducts.


 * 1) If you are ever very dirty, you can just travel to the bath houses in your city and clean up. These bathhouses are supplied with water from aqueducts. No one likes a smelly roman.
 * 2) aqueducts are for carrying drinking water all over the city. You just have to travel a short distance from your house to get drinking water.
 * 3) luckily, aqueducts can bring water from many miles away. Just think, if you didn't have these you would have to walk so far for water. But if your city had a lake, your feet will be spared.
 * 4) Unfortunately you can only take water from aqueducts if you're house is within 4 miles of a aqueduct.
 * 5) fortunately if you do live farther then 4 miles away from a aqueduct you can dig a well to get a supply of water.
 * 6) The hard part about building an aqueduct is that you have to dig all the way through a mountain! If you ever choose to be a builder in Rome, you might want to rethink that choice.
 * 7) The only reason that the water is going through the aqueducts and into the Roman cities is by the force of gravity alone. They didn't have anything to move the water like we do today.

__**Connection to our time period**__ The closest thing a aqueduct comes to in our time period would be underground plumbing. They are related to each other because they both bring water into our homes from a underground water source. Except the underground plumbing in our time period gets its water from a water processing plant. We today get our water from underground plumbing which goes to our faucets. This is kind of like a roman aqueduct because it brings water from a underground water source to their houses.

__**//This is a roman aqueduct filled with water.//**__