User:Jakemejake123

Roman Daily Life Opinion

The city of Rome and modern-day cities can be very different but also similar. The city of Rome had almost one million people. Today’s major cities usually have more than a couple of million people. I would rather live in a modern-day city, this is why. To start, Rome has cramped together apartment buildings where 95% of the population lived because they couldn’t afford a house. The apartment building would catch on fire easily and the higher the apartment is the less space there is. That 95% was known as the plebeians and 1 in 3 people in Rome were enslaved. Today, the cities of the world don’t have slaves or cramped-up apartment buildings. Usually, the higher the apartment that is in the building the more fancy or spacious it is. In Rome, carts and chariots were only allowed at night. The modern-day version of carts are cars and in cities, they can be used whenever people want. Today, our cities have many tall and short buildings. In Rome, they had buildings but not office buildings or tall ones like today’s cities do. In conclusion, Rome isn’t the best place to live if you are used to modern society. What got me leaning toward modern cities is that 95% of the population are poor in the city of Rome. Most of those people were enslaved and if I lived in a modern city I would probably have a decent apartment. That is why I think that a modern city is better to live in than Rome.