Examples like aquaducts, sewage, advanced architecture, etcetera
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A lot of it was sort of vanity projects of the time, better than pyramids but not by that much, Rome got the fanciest stuff and rest of the empire got to pay for it. After the empire, the economical and political concentration of power to continue doing such things just wasn’t there anymore. And when it again happened with St Peter’s Basilica it resulted in some chap nailing a manifesto on some church door and kicking off a lot of bloody wars.
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