They used all types of stone usually but not exclusively local to where they were building. However sometimes they moved stone over large distances just because they liked the feel of it or it looked nice. Just like today really. Did you know that alot of Roman buildings were actually made from concrete and had real stone facades. Making the buildings stronger and cheaper to erect.
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Drawing on the Hebrew tradition of carving important information in stone, the Romans left some tidbits and teasers in stone, as well as a few stone monuments to their gods and heroes.
Greeks
The abacus was an instrument used by Greeks and Romans for arithmetic calculations, preceding the slide-rule and the electronic calculator, and consisted of perforated pebbles sliding on iron bars.
No Romans did not use wheelbarrows the wheel barrows were practicaly invented after.
Romans use the Groma to buils the roads. The roads that are made by Romans are straight. The Groma makes the roads straight