Ancient inventions episode 2 city life

This episode was about how the inventions that city life more easy such as the toilet, eating out, skyscrapers and more. Ancient civilizations used toilets attached to simple flowing water sewage systems included ..... Among Romans and Greeks, chamber pots were brought to meals and drinking sessions. In ancient Rome a lot of people would eat out at little stands on the street that would serve things like custard, cheesecake, and hamburgers. The medieval Egyptian city of Fustat housed many high-rise residential buildings, which Al-Muqaddasi in the 10th century described as resembling minarets. Nasir Khusraw in the early 11th century described some of them rising up to 14 storeys, with roof gardens on the top floor complete with ox-drawn water wheels for irrigating them. Cairo in the 16th century had high-rise apartment buildings where the two lower floors were for commercial and storage purposes and the multiple storeys above them were rented out to tenants. An early example of a city consisting entirely of high-rise housing is the 16th-century city of Shibam in Yemen. Shibam was made up of over 500 tower houses, each one rising 5 to 11 stories high, with each floor being an apartment occupied by a single family.