How come people stopped building aqueducts and how did they transport large quantities of water into medieval cities...

how come people stopped building aqueducts and how did they transport large quantities of water into medieval cities without them?

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they didnt they still exist today they are all over the world they just dont look like big limestone constructs anymore you moron

Basically the old aqueducts still worked so there was no point in building new ones.

Large-scale building projects require a lot of political stability, which is something that Medieval Europe wasn't very good at.

they built a lot of huge cathedrals and castle though...

Because Europe stagnated under Christianity.

yeah but that's just one location not a stretch of construction nawmean

The old aqueducts functioned besides the Byzantines build a few aqueducts but mostly they relied on subterranean pipelines. The biggest problem I believe is that they lost the knowledge on how to make opus cementum, which was essential

That was more of a high/late medieval phenomenon, though.
Go back to plebbit.

which would make sense if roughly the same number of people lived in the same places

but there were huge demographic shifts

Most of the really impressive "medieval" structures were actually built after 1400 AD. They were products of the renaissance era.

Lol what... Gothic cathedrals were built since 1100 AD, and before there were Romanic ones, most castles were built from 1000 AD onwards but some even before

>being this retarded

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Retard
The city of Venice alone counters that statement

mdpi.com/2073-4441/5/4/1996/htm

they were largely replaced by cisterns and cheaper siphons

>In ca. the 11th century AD, at the Daphni monastery near Athens, a Byzantine cistern incorporated a long underground channel collecting and conveying water from a nearby narrow valley, arguably by a qanat-fashion technique.
>Additional examples from the medieval period are equally notable. In medieval Catalonia (Spain), in 1336 AD, the city and lands surrounding Manresa began to suffer from drought. In 1339, the city council decided to construct an aqueduct to bring water from the Llobregat River. The construction of the aqueduct was completed in 1344 [72].

>The medieval aqueduct of Sulmona was built in 1256 AD, under the reign of Manfred, son of Frederick II of Swabia

>The medieval aqueduct of Gubbio (Condotto in Italian, i.e., conduit), in the Umbria region of Central Italy, served as a hydraulic connection between a dam named Bottaccione and a fortified area located upstream of the Palazzo Ducale (named Cassero), with an approximate length of 2 km. It was constructed near the end of ca. the 14th century AD to supply the highest part of the city. In the city of Perugia, in Umbria, the construction of an aqueduct from Mount Pacciano to the Piazza Grande (now Piazza IV Novembre) began in 1254 AD with a length of about 3 km.

>The medieval aqueduct of Salerno was built by the Lombards in ca. the 7th century AD. It was later restored by the Normans in ca. the 9th century AD to supply water to the monastery of Saint Benedict. Its structure consists of two main branches. Its length was approximately 650 m, including 255 m where two tiers of pointed arches were supported by massive pillars of masonry, with a maximum height of about 21 m. The remaining length is about one hundred meters.
>In Cyprus, in the 15th century AD, a medieval sugarcane mill at Kolossi was powered by a ground-level aqueduct channel delivering water from the foothills of the Trodos Mountains

Yeah, people fled from cities where huge aqueducts were needed, and into the country.

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Wasn't it a huge pain in the ass to build siphons before modern waterproof piping?

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>how come people stopped building aqueducts
They did not stop. They have been build until modern times. E.g. this one late 18th century in Brazil.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carioca_Aqueduct

You don't live in Europe, do you?

My man, wells go back to biblical times.

>biblical times

I'm pretty sure well were used since the Neolithic

Yeah and people also used wells during Middle Age, they didn't need aqueducs. In some places every house has its well.

Wells aren't practical for entire cities.

No one says it's practical, but they had no other means for centuries.

It's pretty cool how aqueducts were still built until the 1700s iirc.

aqueducts are still being built now...

Rome had a million populace so i'm not sure a lot changed considering populace size.

or maybe because germanics didnt know how to fucking do it as they destroyed everything

i like how you people obvious the fact that medieval europe was like that and its because germanics destroyed everything there

and how they lost it?

they had more knowledge back then

Wells were used in Europe since the Neolithic, were they not?

Roman concrete required volcanic ash which the empire did not have a sufficient supply of after the loss of the western territories. In the west there were no large building scale projects conducted anyway, so no one maintained the knowledge. Lack of supply in the east, lack of demand in the west.

I can't really believed Medieval Europeans didn't build aqueducts anymore, even some bronze Europeans had primitive aqueducts and they didn't even use concrete

Why for? Most of the cities had little population, were built on rivers, and anyway except for some regions in southern Europe water was very accessible.

how do you even know where to make a well? always asked myself this

grass tend to be greener maybe

You just keep going down until you find water

>how come people stopped building aqueducts

Large scale projects like that require trade networks and concentration of manpower. Both went to shit when the western roman empire collapsed. Within a couple of generations, the know how went away as well.

>and how did they transport large quantities of water into medieval cities without them?

They didn't. Medieval "cities" were much smaller, and relied on wells. A city the size of Rome at its height wasn't seen again in Europe until the 1800s.

A well doesn't tap into some underground water bubble you have to find. Dig a well anywhere that goes deeper than the ground water level and clear water will rise up in the well.

Why you people can't understand that germanics destroyed everything when they invaded?

Most knowledge from greek/roman was destroyed

>A well doesn't tap into some underground water bubble you have to find

*blocks your path*
honestly speaking user, water divining is ancient as fuck, and it works. Not claiming it was used in the majority of well-making or anything like that, but yeah

>Veeky Forums intellectuals

Medieval cities were not that small, didn't Paris have an aqueduct?

>Americans

ah yes, the infamous /int/ memes are leaking into Veeky Forums. Do you also think turks are black?

>how come people stopped building aqueducts

all the Romans got killed and depopulated by snow niggers basically (in the western part of the Empire) to the point where there were so few native Romans left the common language of Latin stopped being spoken in favor of Celtic dialects with a mix of Latin (Italian) of course this had been happening for centuries due to the trust of the snow nigger and putting him in your armies and teaching him your tactics and generally the Roman population had been in decline for some reason, all Roman authority was seceded to Germanic and Celtic tribes that split the Roman territories up and didn't know how to construct Roman buildings using Roman concrete (art form lost until rediscovered in modern times) and thus could not make aqueducts one of the most advanced structures using arches

>how did they transport large quantities of water into medieval cities without them?

they didn't, most of the cities were already established Roman settlements in the Empire the fell into massive disrepair due to the collapse and resultant dark ages, cities filled with sewage and caused the plague to fester all over Europe until the stupid snow niggers figured out how to properly run cities and manage waste and disease like the Romans already knew how for millennia

Medieval Europeans still used concrete, and a lot too

they used primitive bricks

What does this even mean?

No they didn't, look at medieval buildings, also you don't even need concrete to make aqueducts

So you think germanics tribes didnt destroy libraries, schools,etc?

Idiot

I bet you believe they didnt had knowledge and it was thanks to Christianity

But celtics didnt attack Rome empire, it was only germanics