Roman houses

Did you know that Roman houses are made out of wood , stone , straw and slate.

Rich Romans had very large houses called villas. They had courtyards with swimming pools. The very rich Romans had tiles floors called mosaic made from colourful tiles.

The poor Rmans hatd

in flats whith only two room and used Roman barths.

to live

Most people living in the Roman Empire lived with their whole family in one room of a sort of apartment house.and some of the rich peoples manchuns are intiely made out of stone.

These were built, like many cheap apartment houses in the United States today, around two or three sides of a courtyard, one or two stories high.

One of the wonders of the world are in Rome calld the coliseum it was built be carring big stones over there shoulders.

You can see that peoples houses have defenutle got alot better becose now we have heating, runing tap or eletronik light the Romans didn't have any of thoes things.

Bricks were laid in alternate layers of headers and stretchers.

All of the poor peoples houses didn't have glass as windos they just had wooden gates as windows

The Roman house is very much a house built for the people of southern Europe. So much so, that when the Romans built their houses in northern Italy or the northern European provinces, they adopted a system of heating, circulating warm air under the floors and along the walls.