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古罗马的故事 The Pantheon here was built by the Emperor Haydrian in the 2nd century AD and its 1)dome is still one of the largest 2)concrete domes in the world. Its 50 yards across and its concrete is up to 20 feet thick. The word concrete comes from the Latin concretus, meaning grown together or harden. Romanconcrete was a mixture of sand, powdered 3)limestone and stone 4)rubble, pretty well what it is today. To construct 5)arches and 6)vaults, the Romans also developed a lightening. And the higher they went the lighter they made the concrete. In this way they could roof over much larger areas t