Fondo Cultural

1. Fondo Cultural • Many Spanish words are derived from Latin because Spain was once part of the Roman Empire. Rome occupied most of Spain from 209 B.C. to 586 A.D. During that time, massive public structures, including aqueducts and theaters, were built.

2. Fondo Cultural • Some of these, such as the aqueduct that towers over the modern city of Segovia, are still standing. The Latin name for Spain was Hispania.

3. Roman aqueducts • Aqueducts moved water through gravity alone, being constructed along a slight downward gradient within conduits of stone, brick or concrete. Most were buried beneath the ground, and followed its contours; obstructing peaks were circumvented or, less often, tunneled through. Where valleys or lowlands intervened, the conduit was carried on bridgework, or its contents fed into high-pressure lead, ceramic or stone pipes and siphoned across. Most aqueduct systems included sedimentation tanks, sluices and distribution tanks to regulate the supply at need. • Rome's first aqueduct supplied a water-fountain sited at the city's cattle-market. By the third century AD, the city had eleven aqueducts, sustaining a population of over a million in a water-extravagant economy; most of the water supplied the city's many public baths. Cities and municipalities throughout the Roman Empire emulated this model, and funded aqueducts as objects of public interest and civic pride, "an expensive yet necessary luxury to which all could, and did, aspire."

4. Exploración del lenguage Connections between Latin, English, and Spanish

5. Connection between Latin, English and Spanish Many words in English and Spanish are based on Latin. Seeing the relationship between these words will help expand your English or Spanish vocabulary.

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