Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome are two very important parts when it comes to architecture in mostly Washington D.C. Just Imagine the Lincoln Memorial, the White House, or the Jefferson Memorial without its columns, it would not look that fantastic or official as it is right now. Those wonderful columns are all thanks to the builders and inventors in the classical period who also helped by creating other possessions like transportation or the form of Government we have.
An example of the architecture from ancient times in the Georgia that we still have today is columns. My sister’s sorority house has, I think, ionic column, which I believe that it means that the building is very important to the students and teachers (OI). There are three types of columns, doric, ionic, and corinthian, in my opinion corinthian columns look the best. Today, people use columns for houses and mostly buildings that have a special authority like the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. (Doc. 1). The Lincoln Memorial has Doric Columns, the Jefferson Memorial has Ionic Columns, and the Supreme Court has Corinthian Columns. At the end, without the Grecian people nothing would look that official or important. …show more content…
That’s because the Romans were the first civilization that invented roads (Doc. 3). Romans used the road for trading and to move their army from place to place (Doc. 3). Transportation, I think, is one of the most important things that the ancient Romans made. Well, they made roads. The reason that I think it is very important is because without roads, nowadays people would have to drive through the trees in the woods. Honestly, I don’t think cars would be made at all since they can’t drive through trees. As you can see, roads are still very important to our world