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    Mining in ancient Rome utilized hydraulic mining and shaft mining techniques in combination with equipment such as the Archimedes screw. The materials...
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    following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to ancient Rome: Ancient Rome – former civilization that thrived on the Italian Peninsula as...
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    Ruina montium (category Industry in ancient Rome)
    mountains") was a mining technique in Ancient Rome described by Pliny the Elder (Natural History 33.21), who served as procurator in Spain. It is thought...
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    The study of the economies of the ancient city-state of Rome and its empire during the Republican and Imperial periods remains highly speculative. There...
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    In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of...
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    Slavery in ancient Rome played an important role in society and the economy. Unskilled or low-skill slaves labored in the fields, mines, and mills with...
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    workers were left with no jobs. Mining in ancient Rome Derbyshire lead mining history Dolaucothi Gold Mines Metal mining in Wales Roman engineering Roman...
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    at various aspects of housing in ancient Rome, apartments and villas. Rome Reborn − A Video Tour through Ancient Rome based on a digital model. Archived...
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    as a figure of tyranny. Ancient Rome portal History portal Europe portal Outline of ancient Rome List of political systems in France List of Roman dynasties...
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    unexcavated. Ancient Rome portal Engineering portal History portal List of Roman watermills Roman agriculture Roman metallurgy Roman mining Roman technology...
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    Agricola Mining in Roman Britain Mining in ancient Rome Roman engineering Roman technology Malvesa F., Healy, J. (1978). Mining and metallurgy in the greek...
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    amethyst. Mining in Egypt occurred in the earliest dynasties. The gold mines of Nubia were among the largest and most extensive of any in Ancient Egypt....
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    and changed by later buildings built on top of them. Mining in ancient Rome Frontinus List of ancient watermills Roman engineering Roman technology Boon...
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  • the ancient city of Rome", in The Waters of Rome, 2, published online by virginia edu2, Tucci, Pier Luigi (2006). "Ideology and technology in Rome’s water...
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    The Catacombs of Rome (Italian: Catacombe di Roma) are ancient catacombs, underground burial places in and around Rome, of which there are at least forty...
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    civilization and made possible the expansion of the economy and military of ancient Rome (753 BC – 476 AD). The Roman Empire was one of the most technologically...
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  • sometimes referred to as "knights" in English) constituted the second of the property/social-based classes of ancient Rome, ranking below the senatorial class...
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    relative simplicity. The first recorded instances of placer mining are from ancient Rome, where gold and other precious metals were extracted from streams...
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    sulfur took place even in very ancient times. In fact, mining vestiges have been found dating back to 200 B.C.E.; it was used in medicine from time immemorial...
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    Ancient Egypt (Egyptian: km.t) was a cradle of civilization concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in Northeast Africa. It emerged from...
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    Cinnabar (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    as ancient Rome. The name comes from Greek κιννάβαρι (kinnabari), a Greek word most likely applied by Theophrastus to several distinct substances. In Latin...
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    Mining in Cornwall and Devon, in the southwest of Britain, is thought to have begun in the early-middle Bronze Age with the exploitation of cassiterite...
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  • Mining and the processing of minerals date back to ancient times in Sardinia. Ancient traders and conquerors, attracted by the astonishing underground...
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  • growth of the ancient civilizations, ancient technology was the result from advances in engineering in ancient times. These advances in the history of...
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    years ago in eastern Europe, and mining copper as far back as early in eastern Europe and Spain. In Ancient Rome, mining for gold and copper in Spain, Cyprus...
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    on the Macedonians from Greece, Rome, and Beyond". In Roisman, Joseph; Worthington, Ian (eds.). A Companion to Ancient Macedonia. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell...
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    Terra (mythology) (category Personifications in Roman mythology)
    Ge Mater into Roman religious practice, while Tellus, whose ancient temple was within Rome's sacred boundary (pomerium), represents the original earth goddess...
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    Roman lead poisoning theory (category Food in ancient Rome)
    Declines in Ancient Rome, New Study Finds". DRI. Retrieved 2025-03-26. "Lead pollution likely caused widespread IQ declines in ancient Rome, new study...
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    Popular assembly (category Local government in the United States)
    famous example in ancient times is the Athenian democracy, where an assembly open to all male citizens was the highest decision-making body in the city-state...
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    Las Médulas (category Roman aqueducts outside Rome)
    (Spanish pronunciation: [las ˈmeðulas]) is a historic gold-mining site near the town of Ponferrada in the comarca of El Bierzo (province of León, Castile and...
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