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being a city, Rome has buildings all over its urban area, not only in its centre.
You do not specify whether you are referring to the centre of modern Rome or ancient Rome. The centre of modern Rome is the area between the the Pincian Hill and the river Tiber.
The forum civilium was the civic centre and the heart of a Romans city and its public, political, judicial and administrative life. It had a comitium, the place where the popular assemblies met to vote, public speeches were made and public debates were held. It had a senate house. Roman cities had their own local senate, modelled on the senate of the city of Rome. It had the courts were trials were conducted and administrative offices. It had public buildings (basilicas), shops, entertainments and important temples.
In the city of Rome the Forum or Forum Magnum as the Romans called it (Roman Forum is a modern term) which was a forum civilium, also had the aerarium (the treasury) which has in the temple of Saturn, the tabularium (the state archives) which was built on the slope of the Capitoline Hill, the regia (the residence of the Pontifex Maximus, the chief priest of Roman state religion) and the saenaculum (which was a place where the senators gathered before the entering the senate house for formal summons). It also had several platforms for public speeches. The oldest one was called the rostra (plural of rostrum). The name came from the six rostra (warship rams) of captured warships which were and mounted to its side. It faced the north side of the comitium towards the senate house. Later it came to be called Rostra Vetera (Elder Rostra) when other platforms were built. These were called rostra with the addition of the name of their builders or the person it honoured. The was also the Graecostasis at the southwest end of the Comitium, to the west of the rostra., The name refers to the Greek ambassadors for whom the platform was built after the annexation of mainland Greece. It became a platform for representatives of foreign nations and dignitaries from the Roman provinces (conquered territories).
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What did Tragan build in the center of Rome?
He built a forum - Trajan's Forum. This included most notable Trajan's column, which depicted in bas relief his military conquests against the Dacians, but also markets, libraries, statues, shops, and much more.
What types of buildings were evident in medieval Europe and what were they used for?
These were some of the buildings used in the Middle Ages:Manors had sheds and barns for storage, chicken coops, stables, and so on.Cottages were used by peasants for their homes. In some places long houses were used by multiple families, and in some places these long houses even housed the family of the owner of the farm.A manor had a manor house, the home of the lord of the manor. Some of these were fortified and looked like castles.A manor often had various other work buildings, including work shops for smiths, mills for grinding flour, mills for pumping water, and in some cases such things as buildings for making pottery, kilns and so on. There were also often communal ovens for people to bake with.Shops in the villages, including bakeries, butchers' shops, and so on.Churches for worship. Cities had cathedral churches.Manufacturing facilities for all sorts of goods, including weavers facilities, leather tanners, armorers,Castles, which were forts for defense. They could also be residences of important lords. Castles had their own buildings, such as the great hall or keep, the gate house, and so on.Palaces, which were especially fine manor houses where monarchs lived. Certain counts also had palaces, and were called counts palatine to indicate they had that right.Port facilities, such as warehouses for importers, and other ancillary support buildings for sailors.Inns and taverns for feeding and housing travelersMonasteries and abbeys for housing monks and nunsVarious booths for everyone from people who sold prepared meals to toll collectors
What were the ancient roman slums?
Ancient Rome did not have slums as separate neighborhoods where poor people lived. The rich and poor people lived much closer together than they do in modern cities. A rich family typically lived in a grand building with an atrium, which was basically a garden in the center of the house. Typically, all the windows looked out on the atrium, and none onto the street. This insulated the house from the noise and less pleasant sights of the city. A single wealthy family might have occupied the entire center of the block. Around the wealthy family's house, attached to it and sharing a wall with it, were a variety of buildings where less wealthy people worked and lived. The wealthy family usually owned all these buildings and got income from them. They included all sorts of shops and businesses, on the ground floors, with housing for poor people above. The businesses usually included one or more fast food sellers, bakers, tailors, cobblers, and so on. It was very common for one or more of the businesses to be a brothel, where the women worked and lived - often slaves of the wealthy. While the rich family's home had a secure outer wall, and this wall was shared by poor people, the other walls of the outer buildings were not so carefully built. There were laws limiting how high the buildings could go, because tall buildings that were poorly built tended to collapse. There were a lot of problems with heating and cooking because there were no chimneys (they were invented in the 12th century) and braziers where fires were built could be easily overturned, causing fires. Also, indoor fires had to be vented through window, and on cold nights people often died from carbon monoxide poisoning - they did not know what it was, just that it happened in the circumstances. Most of the streets tended to be very narrow, though rich people liked having their main doors open onto wider and more pleasant streets. On these streets, the shops tended to carry finer merchandise. Another thing to note is that the household servants of the rich people lived in the same building with them, but often were not given their own rooms, but were expected to find places, such as in the kitchen, if the house had one, to sleep.
How do you no that the Romans made shops?
there are ruins of them in all roman cities
What was the role of the Roman Forum?
A Roman forum was a combination marketplace and civic center. It was the gathering place of a Roman town where trials were held, civic announcements were posted and news was dispersed. There were shops and food bars either directly in the forum or in close proximity. The main forum or the Forum Romanum, was the heart of the city of Rome and eventually the center of the empire. It not only had the above mentioned aspects, but it was also the place where the hut of Romulus was supposed to have been, and the lacus curtius, the navel of Rome, from which all distances were measured.
