Aerial view of Timgad, Algeria
a. How is this plan significant?
b. How does it embody the Empire?
Answers will vary.
a. It is a carefully planned community for Roman army veterans authorized by Trajan. It resembles a Roman military encampment or castrum which might have been the plan for all Roman colonies.
b. The plan itself is orderly and rational, but it is also a mirror of all colony plans regardless of location. It presents the Empire as unified and centralized.
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