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What are bridgelike stone structures that brought water from the hills into Roman cities?
They were the aqueducts. They did not carry water form the wells. They carried it from the sources on the mountains. They did not serve only Rome. They supplied water to many Roman towns around the Roman Empire.
What were ancient roman aqueducts used for?
For the same purpose as all the aqueducts that came before the Romans; to transport water from one location to another, typically for the purposes of irrigation. Contrary to belief, aqueducts are not a Roman invention (they were in use long before the Romans came along). But they did improve the technology with their superior construction skills using stone and Roman concrete (which is a Roman invention, but one that we no longer use today).
What aqueducts looked like?
Aqueducts cacn either be about 3-4 feet wide circular or square tunnels mostly made with stone underground.
What are facts about the roman aqueducts?
As roman towns got bigger it became to hard for people to get clean water. Raw sewage was draining into rivers and when people drank river water they got sick or died. Then the government decided to build long stone channels to carry clean water from nearby hills to the towns. These stone channels were called aqueducts. This word came from the latin word aqua (water) and ductus (channels). By the time of the empire most roman towns had at least 1 aqueduct. Big cities like Rome had more.
How did Romans get water before aqueducts were built?
They built aqueducts. Answer They built Aqueducts which supplied the upper and middle class of society, the lower class was forced to haul water with buckets from a common water source generally from long distances. In the early Roman Republic and late Roman Empire days citizens of Roma where forced to go far for their water, as the aqueducts where either not built or had been destroyed.
