Rice, Noodles, and Other Grain Foods. We have a pretty good idea when Chinese pasta was invented. It was around 300 BCE. We have it on authority of Shu Hsi, an official editor of ancient texts and one of the most learned men of China. A pasta enthusiast, in about 300 CE, he composed a poem titled: A Rhapsody on Pasta.
Origins: The idiom, âall roads lead to Rome,â was being used as early as the 1100s. It was based off of the ancient Roman road system where roads radiated from the capital of Rome. The road system resembled spokes of a wheel as the picture above shows around the circle. Ammer, Christine. The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms.
Report Abuse Rome wasn't built for tourists so almost everything will be OPEN! Rome is the capitol city of Italy and the city of the pope, this means that even when there are less foreign tourists people flock to Rome in order to work and to see the Pope and just see the sights.