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Roman builders were the creators of the construction skills, of the tools and materials. Their own systems of construction were basically developped between the II century BC to the IV century AC. At the end their contributions were incorporated during centuries. Roman architecture was born of the contact between two constructive closed systems : Etruscan architectonic system and Greek architectonic system. Roman architecture incorporates of the Etruscan system arches and barrel vaultings . Roman architecture incorporates of the Greek architectonic system tme more classical forms: temples and architectonic orders. Roman architecture emerges with their own contributions. Roman empire was vast and and with big urban sites. They needed communication roads, bridges,, aqueducts, circus, amfitheatres, temples, public baths, drains, watering places, basilicas… Romans create thecnology,innovate skills: they discover a stone ( putzolana), that after being converted in dust and mixed with lime produces a material similar to the cement. This "cement" will be useful to construct walls, and especially to built barrel vaultings and arris vaultings.
Tools that the bricklayers used have nearly arrived to nowadays.
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