Anyway, what have the Romans ever done for us?

Question

Peace fourmorebeers? *#%$ off!

Phew, was worried absolutely no-one would get it, but how wrong can a bear be?

You must fwow yourself to the fwoor. Woughly.

Tch, there's *always* one, isn't there?

Answer 1

Brought peace?

Edit:

How should I &*#$ off ?

Answer 2

Central heating worked because hot air moved through spaces under the floors and up the walls. The space was made by building the floor on top of piles of tile or stone and the walls between rooms were really two walls with a gap between them. This was called a hypocaust. The hot air came from a furnace and it was the slaves' job to keep the furnace well stoked up so that the central heating worked.

Although they did not invent arches in buildings, the Romans were the first people to use them to construct bigger, wider buildings without having lots of rows of pillars to hold the roof up

Aqueducts were made from a line of arches joined together, with a channel on the top to carry water. The Romans used them to supply towns with water.

The arches would be higher or lower as the aqueduct covered rough ground but it would always have a slight slope towards the town so that the water could run downhill.


The Romans also invented the best drains in the world. Towns and forts had underground drains to take away dirty water and sewage. They were flushed through with water from the baths so that they didn't get too smelly.

Fresh clean water and sewers are important because without them people often catch diseases from drinking dirty water or from sewage left around the streets and houses


and last but not least....Highway systems

Answer 3

The Romans had a legal system that is the model for just about all democracies. They devised a short-hand method of keeping records. They worked out an alphabet that I'm using right now. They figured out how to make the seasons of the year match the calender. They had medical instruments and methods that were used practically unchanged 'till the First World War.
In warfare, they made advances that permitted them to win battles over far larger armies. I won't get into that, because it's a whole book by itself.
What do we get out of it ? Knowledge.

Answer 4

If you ever care to read History, the Romans have written many good books on the history of their time(s).
Livy (BCE 59 - CE 17)
Tacitus (CE 54 -119)
Plutarch (CE 45 - 125)
Suetonius, Caesar, and Ammianus Marcellinus, and many more. You can read their works in Penguin Classics. I have.

Answer 5

Don't knock the Romans. Their empire lasted for over a millenia.

Answer 6

Rome gave us our holidays- and our day of worship-Sunday! if they hadn't changed the original ones we would not have christmas, easter, halloween, or Sunday church! we would still be doing Sabbath and Gods festivals--- and they also gave us the roman calander we use now-- thank the Romans?

Answer 7

Lead drinking vessels and Gladiatorial Games! Ah them were the days, grown men fighting naked!

Answer 8

Okay, but *apart* from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order...

Answer 9

Apart from the roads, security, education, water and sanitation?

Not a darn thing!

Answer 10

They went and made a small time bunch of eccentrics into their national church so now we're stuck with being surrounded by christians.

Answer 11

they were the founders of our current democratic society, they have provide us with art and our current alphabet along with engineering techniques like the aquaducts : )