This wall supposedly saved rome for 2000 years. Were humans so incompetent back then?
*runs drenched in hot tar, screaming with arrow in his eye*
>>18113117What if I am the last one and they guy standing on the wall is already dead by a stray arrow?
Does anybody have suggestions on maps or publications about Rome's urban layout both inside and outside of the Aurelian Walls? Was the area outside of the walls as the city continued to grow basically as dense as parts inside, or was there an immediate dropoff in density and the amount of urban planning even long after the walls were built and rome continued to expand past them?
>>18113134There'd be another guy.
>>18113112> I could easily climb this wall That wasn't the issue anon, of course individuals could easily scale that wall, for entire armies it would've been a logistical nightmare though
>>18113112People at the top had sticks to push you back and rocks to throw at you.
>>18113112Are you confusing the Aurelian Walls with the Theodosian Walls?
>>18113134You'd be smitten by the wrath of God.
>>18113134>what if I did X>you'd fail>what if I did X but succeeded somehow
>>18114215There were dense suburbs outside of the walls, lots of villas whose ruins can still be visited today. The Aurelian walls were built fairly late in the empires history though. For hundreds of years before that the city didn’t really have walls. It didn’t need them. The city was too geographically big to completely enclose with walls so a lot of stuff got left out and a lot of buildings were incorporated into the new walls. A good example is this small amphitheater. They bricked up the arches and demolished the top level and turned it into a fort of sorts.
