For the Archeologists among us

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    You mean apart from sewers, baths, roads, etc ? :hehe:
     
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    ... apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order... what have the Romans done for us?

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    You've forgotten their language and culture!
     
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    and the wine!
     
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    Brought peace ?
     
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    And they brought us snails - those big ones with the brown shells.
    But we'll let them off because they brought us a system of Law.
     
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    but they brought us GROUND ELDER !!! ... for that and nothing else I hate them !!! :(
     
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    Dont forget Alexanders, sycamore & the rabbit.
     
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