The Romans were also attentive to the infrastructure of the empire and spent money on improving the roads building aqueducts and whatever other buildings a large city may find necessary.
Caesar had spent a lot of time in Egypt, where 365-day calendars were all the rage, so in 46 BC, he flushed Rome’s lunar calendar down the aqueduct and installed a solar calendar.
Caesar had spent a lot of time in Egypt, where 365-day calendars were all the rage, so in 46 BC, he flushed Rome's lunar calendar down the aqueduct and installed a solar calendar.
They never could have had their big city of a million or even the 2 million that we're now seeing without the aqueducts that brought water in from 20 or 30 miles away in the mountains.