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What the Ancients Did for Us

What the Ancients Did for Us - Season 1 Episode 4

What the Ancients Did for Us 2005 -

Overview:The city of Rome was founded on the banks of the Tiber in 753 BC and for a thousand years the western world was ruled from within its walls. To support this vast Empire the Romans created complex infrastructure and used the techniques of mass production, centuries before the industrial revolution. In this programme Adam Hart-Davis will find out how the Romans managed to do so much, so long ago and discover just what the Romans did for us. For a start they created the first professional, salaried army and invented fearsome war machines. To move around the Empire they constructed thousands of miles of roads – and we find out what it actually takes to build one of these. They built amphitheatres and race tracks and in the process brought gladiatorial games and equine sport to every corner of their empire. They pioneered the mass production of glass and double glazing, and created enormous aqueducts that fed water from distant sources into the heart of their cities and bath houses, created

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First Air Date: Feb 16, 2005 Last Air date: Apr 13, 2005 Season: 1 Season Episode: 9 Episode Runtime: 60:14 minutes Quality: HD IMDb: 10 / 10 by 0 users Popularity: 1.6759 Language: en

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