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... Italian boot . Other roads were added and existing ones paved until Italy was covered with a fine all - weather network . When Octavianus ruled Italy as a triumvir , before he be- came the Emperor Augustus , he ordered the architect Lu ...
... Italian boot . Other roads were added and existing ones paved until Italy was covered with a fine all - weather network . When Octavianus ruled Italy as a triumvir , before he be- came the Emperor Augustus , he ordered the architect Lu ...
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... Italy and the digging stopped . This canal could perhaps have been completed , to the advantage of impoverished Greece . In 1881 a French com- pany , finding Nero's old route the best , undertook to dig the canal . After they gave up ...
... Italy and the digging stopped . This canal could perhaps have been completed , to the advantage of impoverished Greece . In 1881 a French com- pany , finding Nero's old route the best , undertook to dig the canal . After they gave up ...
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... Italian science and engineering did not fare so well . For one thing , during + XVI the great powers— France , Spain , and the " Holy Roman " or German Empire- used Italy as their favorite battleground . The divided and mutually hostile ...
... Italian science and engineering did not fare so well . For one thing , during + XVI the great powers— France , Spain , and the " Holy Roman " or German Empire- used Italy as their favorite battleground . The divided and mutually hostile ...
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One The Coming of the Engineers | 1 |
Two The Egyptian Engineers | 18 |
Three The Mesopotamian Engineers | 46 |
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