Essay About Place Of Greek Democracy And Roman Empire

The Origins of the Computer
Essay title: The Origins of the Computer
The Origins of the Computer
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The Roman Empire, founded by Augustus Caesar in 27 B.C. and lasting in
Western Europe for 500 years, reorganized for world politics and economics.
Almost the entirety of the civilized world became a single centralized state. In
place of Greek democracy, piety, and independence came Roman authoritarianism
and practicality. Vast prosperity resulted. Europe and the Mediterranean bloomed
with trading cities ten times the size of their predecessors with public
amenities previously unheard of courts, theaters, circuses, and public baths.
And these were now large permanent masonry buildings as were the habitations,
tall apartment houses covering whole city blocks.
This architectural revolution brought about by the Romans required two
innovations: the invention of a new building method called concrete vaulting and
the organization of labor and capital on a large scale so that huge projects
could be executed quickly after the plans of a single master architect.
Roman concrete was a fluid mixture of lime and small stones poured into
the hollow centers of walls faced with brick or