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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......

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