Prostitution expanded both in numbers and geographically throughout the nineteenth century. A female-dominated occupation, studies confirm that most
prostitutes were:
a) Single women with drug or alcohol addiction.
b)Women who did not want to work in textile mills or as domestic servants.
c)Formerly enslaved women who migrated from Southern plantations to urban
regions.
d)Foreign-born, largely European, immigrants under the age of 25

“[the city’s engineers excelled in areas] neglected by the greeks, such as the construction of roads and aqueducts, and of sewers that could wash the filth of the city into the tiber. they have built paved roads throughout the country, leveling ridges and filling up hollows, so as to make possible the movements of heavily loaded wagons. . and such is the quantity of water brought in by the aqueducts, that veritable rivers flow through the city and its sewers: almost every house has cisterns, waterpipes, and copious fountains.” —strabo, as quoted in empires ascendant: time frame 400 b.c.–a.d. 200 cisterns are tanks that hold water until it is needed; if a house has a cistern, it is likely to also have a. aqueducts. c. a swimming pool. b. a fish pond. d. sinks and faucets.