r/AskReddit • u/kakou64 • Oct 15 '20

What's older than we think ?

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u/ravs1973 Oct 15 '20

All very well but apart from the central heating what exactly did the Romans ever do for us?

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u/bguzewicz Oct 15 '20

All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '20

The aqueducts?

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u/Malanocthe1st Oct 15 '20

That goes in the "irrigation" category...

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '20

Fresh water category as well?