Introduction: In the article, “The Romans”, Carlson explains goes over a brief history of the Roman’s with a focus on the technologies they made. The technologies that he goes over can be broken into two categories: Military Technologies and Social Technologies. Military Technologies: When developing military technologies, the Roman’s focused on siege and artillery weapons, such …
Tech in Rome
Tech in Rome
The Romans – By Carlson
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Carlson’s ” The Romans” starts off logically be explaining the founding of the city Rome, with brothers Romulus and Remus. Tragically abandoned at birth and raised by wolves to found Rome in 752 BC. Roman legend says that the city started with a king, but decedents of Romulus overthrew him in place of a senate …
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Ancient Oared Warship Pictures
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Tech in Rome
Summary of Carlson’s “The Romans,” by Chris Selby
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In W. Bernard Carlson’s article, “The Romans,” he goes into great depth discussing everything about the Roman Empire. He discusses all sorts of categories, such as: where they started, how they operated, what they ate, their military, and even their different technologies. Some of the Roman ideas are still incorporated into modern society. Carlson started …
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Roman Hydraulic Technology
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The Romans are known for the iconic aqueducts, but Roman hydraulic tech is far more complex than most of us give them credit for. Of course, the known aqueduct was a tremendous part of the society, but they also came up and performed other marvelous engineering feats. The whole story starts with a man named Sextus Julius …
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World of Greece and Rome-by Mary Irwin
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In “The World of Greece and Rome”, MacLachlan discusses the technologies and ideas of the Greeks and Romans, from the use of iron tools and alchemy to philosophy and astronomy. Overall, his message is that these technologies and concepts still impact us today. He starts by describing how iron was one of the first democratic inventions…
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MacLachlan: Technologies of Greece and Rome
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Robert Jordan Lloyd The innovations of the ancient societies of Greece and Rome are sometimes overlooked in many historical courses; instead, we study their government – the democracy of these two societal titans. In ancient societies, like those of Greece and Rome, two technologies were fundamental and heavily relied on: writing with an alphabet and …
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