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1 Imperial Rome: Bread & Circuses
The Culture of Cities Monday, January 9/2006 SOSC 2730

2 Reading Mumford Chapter 8 (Rome) Chapter 9 (Medieval Europe)

3 Selected Civilizations

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5 Problems of Empire administrative problems with large empire
republic ––> imperial political structure (by 50 BCE)

6 Constantinople

7 Bread & Circuses key to sustaining power social welfare entertainment

8 Circus Maximus 500s BCE (last race 549) capacity: 320,000
dimensions: 200 x 600 metres purpose: horse racing

9 Circus Maximus

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11 New Achievements engineers sewers, water supply
Cloaca Maxima (500s BCE) some parts still in use today aqueducts (11 in total) fresh water from mountains to the city

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17 Other Engineering Achievements
road network long-distance trade

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23 Long-Distance Trade Pax Romanum (30 BCE-250) trade flourished
military control highways & sea lanes relatively safe from bandits & pirates trade flourished wealth creation spread of urbanization

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26 Housing high densities lowest levels most desirable
counter to the pattern we see in most cities today commercial operations along major roadways

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28 Marcus Licinius Crassus

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32 Social Stratification
patricians 1,800 families middle class government officials, merchants, industrial employers proletariat tenement housing

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