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Why was an ancient Roman villa's fireplace in a room by itself?
Because they had air flow central heating (a hypocaust system) and the fire had to be in the place where that was and where the bathwater was heated,
Did the Greeks invent the central heating?
Central HeatingCentral heating appears to have been invented in ancient Greece, but it was the Romans who became the supreme heating engineers of the ancient world with their hypocaust system. Central heating was adopted for use again in the early 19th century when the Industrial Revolution caused an increase in the size of buildings for industry, residential use, and services.
How was the Holy Roman Empire like the old Roman empire?
it united its territories under a central government
Central court area in roman house open to the sky?
Atrium? (:
What did Romans use a hypocaust for?
The Hypocaust is what the Romans called their method of making the walls and floors hot so that you would of had to wear sandals. Only few people got to go into that place because the rich people wouldn't go in so the slaves did it by making sure that the furnace's fire wouldn't go out.
