SOSC 1731 Lecture 5: Lecture Notes 5 (SOSC 1732)

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1731
• Professor: Lewis Code

Document Summary

Around 1 million people with alexandria being second most populated in western era. Etruscan and hellenic influences the roman culture. Pomerium no build zone for defensive reasons: streets had a rectangular network that intersected at centre of city forum. Forum is roman equivalent to greek agora: other common elements of roman urbanization included aqueduct, cloaca, arena, circus, bath, and theatre. Roman"s were open to good ideas and would accept, allow the good idea to continue: roman architecture was built off of the greek experience. However, scale was vast compared to the greeks because they had more wealth, population, better engineering, and their empire was bigger. Pantheon (126 ce) still exists today and is a great example of roman engineering. The 1st triumvirate: gnaues pompeius magnus, gaius julius caesar, and. Marcus crassus all part of powerful triad that helped to get caesar into power. Fire department wouldn"t put out fire unless owner sold property to head of fire department.