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   Aqueducts

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The aqueducts were one of Rome’s greatest engineering feats. The Romans built numerous aqueducts for large cities in there empire as well for small towns and industry . The city of Rome itself, being the largest city required a very large concentration of aqueducts. Rome was supplied with eleven aqueducts constructed over a period over five hundred years. Aqueduct supplied water to public fountains and pipes. In a lot of Roman homes there was a hole in the ceiling that water to a hole downstairs that collected water for the towns uses .

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