Hadrian, Emperor

Bar Koehbar s Hasmonaean uprising was not Christian but Jewish nationalism. Massada s fall exhausted it in 67CE and led Roman Emperor Hadrian to order the total obliteration of Jerusalem. Absolutely nothing remained of the city except for the western retaining wall. The Romans dedicated a small temple to Jupiter on the desolate site. 

Hadrian, Publius Aelius 76-138 Roman Emperor Opium control of grief... 

The Romans made excellent use of this material. Perhaps their most famous building in which it was employed on a large scale is the Pantheon, a circular temple built in Rome in the reign of the Emperor Hadrian (about 120 A.D.). It is 43 m in diameter and has a domed roof with a circular aperture at the centre. This dome, as well as the walls several metres in thickness, are constructed of "concrete" (the walls are faced with brick). For achieving the hydraulic properties of this concrete the builders used pozzolana, a volcanic tuff from the region of what is now known as Pozzuoli near mount Vesuvius. 

The Heng seismoscope is a noteworthy machine in itself. It has a place in the history of technology and it has been studied by many scholars (notice its place in time with respect to Western history realizing that it was buUt at the time of Roman emperor Hadrian and just half a century after the Vesuvius eruption that... 

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