INTA 2040 Lecture 2: class 1
30 Nov 2016
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Rome was a city in the middle of italy. Food, water, removing waste were essential to urban life: water: romans built aqueduct to solve the problem of water and improved the delivery of water (romans did a lot of constructions for the governance). Some people in rome took charge of institutions. mountains (north italy has a lot of mountains + snow) Gravity is the key to how the aqueducts work. Romans did not have enough fresh water. During the dry period they used (cid:498)reservoirs(cid:499) (primary reservoir in atlanta is. Aqueduct and reservoirs used to channel the water to some cities to get the lake linier) water to people (distribution) Waste disposal: how to get rid of waste disposal (it was hard to do. It was associated with public health, because it caused many diseases- epidemic/pandemic) Romans were the first to get rid of waste. Whole lot of waste is in liquid form.
