text: Now that you have heard peoples ideas and opinions, why not actually use them? A group that listened to poeple's ideas was the magnificent Roman Empire, who nearly conquered all of Europe, and the top of Africa. The Romans were always trying to get ahead of their enemies strategically, and technologically. An issue that the Romans had was transporting safe drinking water for their soldiers and civilians. What they did was listen to inventors give their ideas on how to solve this crisis. one inventor gave the great idea of making a device they called an aquaduct. An aquaduct was a long elevated line of stone that acted like an artificial river, because it moved water that could flow into pipes for poeple to get water from, and most importantly, could be spread all across the Roman Empire. Because of the aquaduct having been made, the Romans could keep their troops hydrated, and they did not have to transport gallons of water. This technology is still used in a sense, through the much less glorified sewer. As you can see, getting new ideas is so helpful that it can allow you to advance society!