“But apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
LOL! So true. Some of the stuff the Romans were capabale of is just staggering.
2,000 years later - places like Detroit, Chicago, Camden NJ, Oakland and other cities are incapable of most of the things you listed.
Freaking Detroit is going to end of as vacant lot and it will be a huge improvement.