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Building for God reached a high point in the Middle Ages when a new engineering movement emerged in Europe.

Temples, designed to honor the Gods, have been at the heart of cities since earliest times; often they have been the biggest and most impressive buildings of their age.

Without water, civilization is simply not possible; Romans took control of their water supplies very, very seriously; in order to keep the taps on, Roman engineers constructed vast networks of aqueducts, tunnels, sewers, and drains.

As far back as the Bronze Age, humans were building ships capable of crossing oceans and trading between continents; perhaps the greatest surviving vessel from the Ancient world, is The Mary Rose, Henry VIII's mighty warship.