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What were the Ancient Roman Aqueducts made of?
Stones, Bricks, and pozzuolana
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Where were they located?
The highest grounds of Rome
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Why were aqueducts invented?
Because the disease in the regular water they were recieving lead to a 90% decrease of their population
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How did the aqueducts benefit the population of Rome?
Without the aqueducts Rome would have lost 90% of its population
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What year was the first aqueduct made in?
312 B.C.
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What did they provide?
Water to the entire city
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Where was the first water supply from?
Via the River Tiber and local natural springs
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Why did they place the grades ot dicferent points on the aqueduct?
To keep a steady flow of water
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How many years did it take to build 11 aqueducts?
500 years
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What were the aqueducts built to carry?
water
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What was pozzuolana?
The special volcanic cement
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Where did the citizens of Rome recieve their water supply?
In their city
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Why were the aqueducts built on high grounds?
That is where the fresh water was
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How many miles of the aqueduct system were visible in a total of 260 miles?
30 miles
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Where were most aqueducts built?
under ground and above ground
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What pulled the water down the gradients of the aqueduct?
gravity
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Where did they get the pozzolana cement?
volcanoes
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Why did they use high archs in the construction of aqueducts?
To support the structure
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How were the aqueducts built so the citizens did not have to travel?
They ran straight into the city
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How long was an average aqueduct?
260 miles
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What is a definition of an aqueduct?
An aqueduct was an artificial channel carrying water across Rome to farms and other intended destinations
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Where did they place the gradients?
all along the aqueduct
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Why was engineering of the aqueducts hard?
They had to get the water to pass through without it going too fast or too slow
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How many types of aqueducts were there?
2 types
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What were the pipes in the aqueducts made of?
led