I find that period fascinating too, because the Roman technology was way ahead of it's time. There were devices they created to make life convenient, to entertain and fascinate. They had managed to deliver water via aqua ducts from hundreds of miles away for their Roman baths and agriculture and even a crude form of indoor plumbing, (i.e. running water and outflow. Not to mention the architecture of the period. Some of those buildings such as the coliseum are still standing today, albeit in ruins due to disuse. A lot of that technological information was lost after the fall of the Roman Empire. I'm no historian but I love watching the History Channel.
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