Which Roman emperor destroyed a weaving machine?
score:7
Accepted answer
It is Vespasian. In the Life of Vespasian from Chapter 18 of Book 8 of The Twelve Cesars by Suetonius, it says:
Some one offering to convey some immense columns into the Capitol at a small expense by a mechanical contrivance, he rewarded him very handsomely for his invention, but would not accept his service, saying, "Suffer me to find maintenance for the poor people."
More post
- 📝 Was lighter or darker skin pigment valued higher in ancient Greek civilization?
- 📝 Was every man compelled to follow his father's occupation in ancient Egypt?
- 📝 How did the design of the hull differ between an Indiaman and a frigate?
- 📝 Who erected Luis Argüello's tombstone?
- 📝 What share of refugees crossed borders during WW2 and its aftermath?
- 📝 Novgorod means "New city". Given such name, what were the old cities in the region?
- 📝 Did Magellan's log show a lost day?
- 📝 Did Engels and Welles ever call for the extermination of Basques and Serbs?
- 📝 Did Hitler not intend a major war while invading Poland?
- 📝 Did Catherine of Aragon use the title Princess of Wales before she was married to Prince Arthur?
- 📝 What does this Samurai crest mean?
- 📝 Was Tajmahal Tejo Mahal?
- 📝 Is there a historical reason for a pattern of worse technological standards beating out better ones?
- 📝 Absolute rulers who voluntarily resigned their power
- 📝 France vs Germany in 1940: equipment vs. organization
- 📝 Is there footage of Valery Legasov's report at the IAEA Conference in Vienna?
- 📝 Has this rock been engineered by humans and, if so, what was its use?
- 📝 What kind of fence is used at this British airfield?
- 📝 What exactly happened with beer and Leeuwarden in 1487?
- 📝 Is there art or written evidence of crescent shaped arrows being used for bird-hunting in Medieval Europe?
- 📝 Why did people die for their religion in the 400s CE (or even now)?
- 📝 Stonehenge-like olive presses?
- 📝 When did the last Terra Nullius vanish from the earth?
- 📝 Was Marshal Foch predicting WW2 20 years in advance just a coincidence?
- 📝 Did Nazi leaders consider continuing guerrilla warfare after the collapse of Germany?
- 📝 In Montgomery, Alabama, how common was it to be arrested for sitting in the incorrect section of the bus?
- 📝 Were Shakespeare's plays written for "high culture" or "entertain the bawdy masses" during his time?
- 📝 How did Native Americans refer to themselves in the 19th century?
- 📝 Does written language change language more than oral tradition?
- 📝 Why didn't the Persians create good infantry units?
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 Which Roman emperor destroyed a weaving machine?
- 📝 Were there any Roman villas in Britain which were used rather than destroyed after the Romans left?
- 📝 What Roman Republican legal structures lasted into the Empire and which ones didn't?
- 📝 Which Roman general was killed by his own soldiers for not letting them to loot a newly conquered city?
- 📝 Were there any plans to install a Western Roman Emperor after Belisarius reconquered the west?
- 📝 Which early Imperial Roman writer said this about grains?
- 📝 Which roman emperors were not born in Rome?
- 📝 Which months were added during the Roman Empire?
- 📝 Who was the Holy Roman Emperor that was a travelling adventurer?
- 📝 What is the manifestation of the Holy Roman Emperor reign in Italy?
- 📝 How did Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor come to control part of Spain?
- 📝 Which emperor tried to command the tides?
- 📝 Which were the (militarily) strongest countries of the Holy Roman Empire?
- 📝 Would a Roman emperor during Pax Romana be recognised by Roman Britons as a king of Roman Britain?
- 📝 Which country can be called the successor of the Roman Empire, after 476?
- 📝 Which of the Roman wars was the most important and riskiest for Rome?
- 📝 Which culture used no personal names?
- 📝 Why didn't Roman emperors have harems?
- 📝 Why did the Western Roman Empire collapse but not the Eastern Roman Empire?
- 📝 Which came first: polytheism or monotheism?
- 📝 Were Roman public roads built by private companies?
- 📝 Why did the Roman military start to favour swords over the spear phalanx?
- 📝 Could women be crucified under Roman law?
- 📝 How did the Roman state verify citizenship?
- 📝 Which European Languages are not Indo-European?
- 📝 Why did the Germans use the Enigma machine rather than the far superior "Lorenz" cipher machine?
- 📝 Did Roman troops suffer from PTSD?
- 📝 When did the Roman Empire fall according to contemporaries?
- 📝 Were Medieval Britons aware of the existence of the Roman Empire?
- 📝 Which monarch had the longest break in their reign?