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Ancient Rome Technology - Contenido educativo
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The Museum of Roman Culture in Rome hosted an exhibition
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that explored one of the most important themes of ancient Rome,
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the inventive and innovative use of technology,
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a strategic relevance for the development of the Empire.
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The exhibition pointed out that technology allowed Romans
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furnish a large populous town with its wide city walls,
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private and religious architectures,
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jesentian places, thermal baths,
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infrastructures for a large population
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that numbered a million inhabitants only in Rome
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during the time of the Empire.
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Therefore, this model was reproduced and applied
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throughout the vast Empire
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with its communicating 120,000 kilometres of roads.
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Initially, it was essential to comply with two basic actions, to calculate the distance
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and to measure the time.
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In the first case, there is an example of the odometer, a chariot with a large wheel
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of known circumference in a small frame.
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When it was pushed along the ground by hand, it automatically dropped a small pebble into
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container at each revolution giving a measure of the distance traveled to
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measure the time the Romans used different instruments during the day
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they used the sundial in which case the Sun casts a shadow from its style also
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known as a gnomon a thin rod or sharp straight edge on a flat surface marked
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with lines indicating the hours of the day in the city of Rome the sundial
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industry was well-developed producing portable sundials as well as those for
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domestic use
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in the absence of the Sun they had the amphoric water clock with an ingenious
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mechanism of vessels the last one with a graduate scale there were many
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measuring instruments including the basic compass and the plumb line
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one of the most important fields of application was land surveying for
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example plotting out land was carried out thanks to an instrument called a
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groma the basic surveying instrument of the Roman world which allowed the
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measurement of the different contours of the ground
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other examples were the abacus to count the crow robotus a kind of water level
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which found the correct angle of the slope the crane used in building and civil engineering
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quite often of huge dimensions the turntable and the forerunner of the ball bearing
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tools to set up monumental buildings
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well the arch as the module that lightens the construction without damaging the resistance
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the arch has been used to build aqueducts to provide water to the towns throughout a
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capillary delivery system of lead pipes controlled by bronze taps and valves another group of
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instruments involving water, the Archimedes screw, the Noria, the watermill, the Vitruvius
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tympanum. There were an assortment of tools serving a range of handicrafts, manufacturing
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and farming. For example, the wheeled plough, a great invention of the Roman people, and
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clay lathe the communication technology with writing on papyri or with writing
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cabinets propaganda on coins and statuary all kinds of communications
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were served by a network of roads and sea routes very important for the Romans
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was the military technology tools like battering rams to break into the city
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walls and the siege tower to besiege the towns.
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On the battleships, the boarding device is known as a corvus, was used to board the enemy's
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ships and moving foot bridges so that the soldiers could attack the enemy.
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For the civil fleet with routes that reached all the shores of the Mediterranean as far
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as the Adriatic Ocean and out to the north of Europe.
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On the Tiber, goods were moved by boats, pulled along by oxen.
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Therefore, tools and technology of all kinds were invented and used in the empire that
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founded the history of the Western world.
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- Idioma/s:
- Materias:
- Tecnología
- Niveles educativos:
- ▼ Mostrar / ocultar niveles
- Educación Secundaria Obligatoria
- Ordinaria
- Primer Ciclo
- Primer Curso
- Segundo Curso
- Segundo Ciclo
- Tercer Curso
- Cuarto Curso
- Diversificacion Curricular 1
- Diversificacion Curricular 2
- Primer Ciclo
- Compensatoria
- Ordinaria
- Bachillerato
- Primer Curso
- Segundo Curso
- Subido por:
- David G.
- Licencia:
- Reconocimiento
- Visualizaciones:
- 10
- Fecha:
- 4 de junio de 2026 - 22:16
- Visibilidad:
- Público
- Centro:
- IES MARIE CURIE Loeches
- Duración:
- 10′
- Relación de aspecto:
- 4:3 Hasta 2009 fue el estándar utilizado en la televisión PAL; muchas pantallas de ordenador y televisores usan este estándar, erróneamente llamado cuadrado, cuando en la realidad es rectangular o wide.
- Resolución:
- 480x360 píxeles
- Tamaño:
- 31.39 MBytes
