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=__ Creating Mosaics __= The Romans made mosaics because they had terrible floors. They did not want to step on there floors and get there feet all yucky. So that's where mosaic flooring came in. The Romans used stone so they could cut them down into squares. Well basically they used whatever they could that would be cut into squares.

=__ Romans Supplies __= The Romans used many tools. There number one tool they use was there hands and a knife. There hands came in handy because they broke up the stone and other materials up in squares to make the mosaics. The knife would be used to carve it in the ground and make the length of how big,wide,and tall the mosaics would be. It also helped them because it came in handy when they could not break down the stone into squares.

=__ Romans History __= The Romans did not make mosaics! The Greeks made it. Most of the Romans arts the Greeks made. So mostly everything the Romans made it had came from the Greeks. The Greeks were very talented on making things that went on from generation to generation.

=__ Wealthy Romans __= The Wealthy Romans were most likely the ones who had mosaic floors and other stuff. They picked how they wanted the design and how they wanted it to look.Romans knew that if you were very wealthy you would be very famous in Rome.Also in Rome they did not want the poor people to have mosaics. They thought only the wealthy people should get mosaics in there houses.

=__ Mosaic Colors __= The Romans made mosaic flooring. They only used black and red. Those colors they had were because one was that red was the blood and the black was from the dirt. Those were the colors they used to make mosaics.