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Why was
Public Health
(sanitation and hygiene) so necessary and important in Ancient Rome?
Students complete the Picture Dictation.
Going to the loo, Roman style
- Create a Propeller to show the three elements
of the Roman Public Health system.
- Create a Trircle to show when, why and by
whom the Cloaca Maxima was created.
- Construct a diagram to show how the Roman Toilets worked.
(Roman
Loos)
- Explain how a person from today might feel walking into an Ancient
Roman Toilet.
But... how did they get the water to the water closets?
Romans were expert
plumbers
as evidence from the buried city of Pompeii shows.
- Describe a day in the life of your typical Roman plumber as he (were
there any women plumbers in those days?) formed pipes, ensured the water
flowed to the houses, checked out the sewers and the water closets.
Aqueducts
Roman engineers were also famous for their Aqueducts.
- Test your problem solving skills. How did the engineers build the
aqueduct at Segovia?
- So, how do you build an aqueduct?
Construct a simple flow chart to show the stages in the construction of an
aqueduct.
- What does the construction of sewers like the Cloaca Maxima, toilets and
aqueducts tell us about Roman ideas about sanitation?
Students work in pairs - one is a Roman engineer, the other a reporter for
the Roman Tablet.
The reporter asks the engineer at least three open ended questions about the
purpose of sewers and aqueducts, and the reasons why they put so much time
and energy into constructing them.
The engineer of course must have the answers to these questions.
This material has been produced by UNITEC Institute of Technology
under contract to the Ministry of Education.
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