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on building the ultimate civilization. They attempted to achieve this lofty goal through architecture, warfare, and production. The Romans had their work cut out for them if they
were going to surpass the ancient Greeks that set the standard upon which they and succeeding societies would be measured. But while the Romans would occasionally borrow from the
Greek blueprint, they would vastly improve upon it, making their own contributions they hoped would withstand the test of time. The earliest Roman architecture originated with the Etruscans, who settled
north of Rome in a region now known as Tuscany (Roth, 1993). The Etruscan influence on early Roman temples is readily apparent in the design of the arches and
arcuated vaults (Roth, 1993). The early Romans attempted to combine the best of the Greeks and Romans in what would be a predominantly urban society. But unlike the
Greeks, Roman architecture emphasized spaced, both internal as well as external, "on a grand scale" (Roth, 1993, p. 213). Because the city was at the central core of Roman
life, public architecture held special importance, and always featured a combination of enclosed and open spaces (Roth, 1993). The Romans were perhaps the first urban planners, and cities became
the hub or "centers of trade and commerce" (Roth, 1993). City dwellers resided in apartment houses that usually of three or four floors that opened out into a landscaped
inner court (Roth, 1993). Known as insulae ("islands"), these large houses could comprise an entire city block, often connected by bridges to surrounding insulae so that traffic congestion could
be kept at a minimum (Roth, 1993). The characteristic Roman architectural design consisted of a combination of arcuated and trabeated construction,
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