The Importance Of Daily Life In Ancient Rome

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Just think, to travel back in time and see another place is one thing that most wouldn’t refuse. Especially one that is full of wonder and more advanced than most in that age. I find Ancient Rome to be among the top choices of where to go. Essentially, “Rome was the superpower of the ancient world” (Roman Life). They had everything. Running water? Try an aqueduct (Roman Life). Indoor plumbing? No problem with the sewage system they had (Roman Life). Don’t want to cook? No need, most people got take out on the way home anyways (Daily Life in Ancient Rome). Now to fit in, what would we be wearing? You’re probably thinking, ‘Toga!’, but that’s not always the case. If we were commoners, we would be wearing tunics (Daily Life in Ancient Rome). …show more content…
If we were really important, we would have a single colored stripe to make us stand out (Daily Life in Ancient Rome). On the bright side though, no matter what class we are, we all ge the same shoes. That’s right, we have leather sandals (Daily Life in Ancient Rome)! Now let’s say we got stuck here for a while, where would we live? If we’re aristocrats (those wealthy people), we would be living in a nice house with a courtyard and maybe even a pool (Daily Life in Ancient Rome)! But if we were commoners, we would be living in a wooden apartment (Daily Life in Ancient Rome).
How about food, I know I mentioned it before. It honestly depended on where we lived. If we had an apartment, we would get food while we were out, if simply for the fact that we don’t want to risk burning our oh so nice accomodations down (Daily Life in Ancient Rome). If we lived in that nice house though, we would have our meal cooked at home by servants and have quite a bit more than our apartment bound counterparts (Daily Life in Ancient Rome).
Speaking of servants, where in the world do we get so many? Even if we were commoners we would have at least one, since they’re a part of the overall culture (Daily Life in the Roman Empire). We probably got them from all over the world and, technically speaking, these are servants are called

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