Roman Inventions
An underground pathway carrying water and waste.
What is a sewer?
They are no longer a piece of cloth wrapped around you with a pin.
What are clothes?
A large bowl in the bathroom that you can flush.
What is a toilet?
Romans used it for holding their clothes,now we sometimes use it for skirts or when something is two big.
What is a pin ?
A path made with sand leading from one place to another.
What is a road?
They used to be printed in papyrus or wax slabs and placed for all to see. It is now printed on a paper press and delivers the news daily.
What is a newspaper?
Small stacked up homes in one building.
What is an apartment buildings?
They are numbers spelled with letters like I,V,X.
What are Roman numerals?
A device that powers electronics.
What is a battery?
System that distributed heat to the house from an underground fire, and now uses a furnace.
What is central heating?
Main material used to build houses.
What is concrete?
Pathway used to transport water from neighboring sources into the cities
What is are aqueducts?
An object made of clay and hardened with heat.
What is pottery?
It contained 355 days,it was a lunar calendar .It now has 365 days and 366 days every 4 years.
What is the Julian calendar?
Rich people homes in the country side.
What is a Villa.
Favourite Roman structure to hold bridges, monuments and buildings.
What are arches?
Medical equipment, baths, pottery
What are things Romas used that are still used today?
A system that transferred messages from one place to another using horse carts. We now use mail boxes, trucks and planes to deliver letters.
What is the postal service?
Opulent housing complexs in cities
What are Domus?
Known as codex, it was a portable way to transport information.
What are bound books?