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THE HIST OR Y OF ROME  25

Roman Street
In the 1st century Where to See
BC, most buildings Republican Rome
in Rome were made
from brick and
concrete. Only a few
public buildings
used marble.

Aqueduct (2nd Century BC)
This fresco depicting a gang
Rome owed much of its prosperity to its skilled civil engineers. of slaves building a wall can be
When the city’s wells were no longer sufficient, aqueducts were seen at the Museo Nazionale
built to bring water from surrounding hills. Some aqueducts Romano (see p165).
were more than 50 miles (80 km) long.

Arches for maintaining a
constant gradient over
low-lying land The Temple of Saturn, first
Temple of Juno built in 497 BC, now consists
The ruins of this 197 BC temple are of eight majestic columns
embedded in the church of San Nicola overlooking the Forum at the
in Carcere (see p153). Romans consulted end of the Via Sacra (see p85).
their gods before all important ventures.
Rome’s loveliest Republican
buildings are the two Temples
of the Forum Boarium (see p205).
Four more temples can be
seen in the Area Sacra of
Largo Argentina (p152). Most
monuments from this period,
however, lie underground.
Only a few, like the Tomb of
the Scipios (p197), have been
Scipio Africanus excavated. One of the bridges
In 202 BC the Roman leading to Tiber Island (p155),
general Scipio defeated the Ponte Fabricio, dates from
Hannibal. Rome the 1st century BC and is still
replaced Carthage used by pedestrians.
as master of the
Mediterranean.
Ponte Fabricio,
220 BC Via Flaminia built, 168 BC Victory in built in 62 BC
linking Rome to the Macedonian War
Adriatic coast completes Roman 133–120 BC Gracchi 51 BC Caesar
conquest of Greece brothers killed for trying conquers Gaul
to introduce land reforms
300 BC 250 BC 200 BC 150 BC 100 BC
71 BC Slave revolt led by Spartacus crushed
218–202 BC Second 149–146 BC Third Punic by Crassus and Pompey
264–241 BC Punic War; Scipio War; Carthage
First Punic Africanus defeats destroyed
War (against Carthaginians Hannibal 60 BC Rome has three joint rulers:
Carthage) Pompey, Crassus, and Caesar

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