Why Did You Decide To Build Aqueducts

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Tour With Augustus

INTERVIEWER
An interviewer from the common era time traveling to learn about aqueducts with Augustus

AUGUSTUS- First Emperor of Rome
Supervising the build of Aqueducts

BOB- Aqueduct Builder
Happy and Preppy Guy

SCENE 1- MEETING AUGUSTUS

Int. Rome/Augustus’s office - Mid-day AUGUSTUS: Welcome to Rome, I will be your tour guide Augustus!
Please head on outside where I will begin your tour.

SCENE 2- BEGINNING OF TOUR

Ext. Rome/Outside Augustus’s Office - Mid-day

AUGUSTUS: As you can see, us Romans are very busy working on building a new aqueduct to help transport water to different places through and out of Rome using canals.

INTERVIEWER: Why did you decide to build aqueducts?

AUGUSTUS: We Romans wanted to build aqueducts to transport
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Rome/Construction site - Afternoon

BOB: Hello there! I’m Bob and I have been working on building this aqueduct for a while now. Luckily, this is not as hard as the first time we built an aqueduct.

INTERVIEWER: Why was building the first aqueduct so hard?

BOB: Well, we had to make everything precise,aside from only having one try! If we did not succeed on the first try, the whole city would be flooded underwater. Fortunately, we got the slope and angle perfect and succeeded!

INTERVIEWER: That is amazing! What is Rome’s upcoming goal for aqueducts?

BOB: Our goal is to be able to build at least one aqueduct per town in Rome. We have been building aqueducts nonstop and we all hope to reach our goal very soon.

INTERVIEWER: Last question, what do you think will be your lasting impact to future civilizations?

BOB: I hope that our techniques and hardships will still be acknowledged in future times!

INTERVIEWER: Thank you very much! Bibliography

Cartwright, Mark. “Aqueduct.” Ancient History Encyclopedia, Ancient History Encyclopedia Listed, 1 Sep. 2012, www.ancient.eu/aqueduct/.

“Section 1 Chapter 2.” World History Medieval to Early Modern Times, Holt, Rinehart and Winston,

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