Rome's Achievements Quiz Study Guide

Watertight enclosure made of wooden piles (pointed tree trunks)

• Aqueduct

• Specus

• cofferdam
• Camber

The crossing of two barrel vaults

• Cross Vault

• Arch

• Buttress

• Viaduct

A curved structure (can support its own weight)

• Groma

• Arch

• Paving Stones

• Viaduct

Channels to transport water from springs in the hills to the city

• Cofferdam

• Groma

• Aqueduct

• Barrell Vault

Top layer of the road that rose slightly in the middle (this helped water drain off the road’s surface)

• Cross Vault

• Specus

• Camber

• Pozzolana

Pulled water up a tube when a screw was rotated

• Arch

• Surveyor

• Archimedean Screw

• Viaduct

The part of an aqueduct that actually carried the water

• Specus

• Cofferdam

• Arch

• Barrel Vault

Experts who measured and tested the land surface (also helped select the location)

• Aqueduct

• Archimedean Screw

• Cross Vault

• Surveyors

A pole four feet high, over which a crossbar was laid flat (this instrument helped make sure that roads were straight)

• Pozzolana

• Surveyor

• Viaduct

• Groma

Thick flat stones (laid close together to make a smooth, hard surface)

• Paving Stones

• Cofferdam

• Camber

• Aqueduct