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Roman Roads Home  Colosseum Slave Aqueduct Augustus Caeser Roman Soldier Are you going to travel a lot on your trip? Do you know the history of Roman Roads? This is the perfect guide if you don’t. Roman Roads stretched 53,819 miles with 372 road links. A lot of people used them for many purposes such as military, politics and trading. The Romans called them viae. The roads were named after the censor who ordered the construction of that particular road. There were many different types of roads, ranging from the corduroy to paved roads. The roads were built in straight lines and almost all of them had gutters along the side of them. Signs called milestones were built alongside the roads, which told you how far it was back to Rome . Milestones also consisted of who contributed money toward the construction of the road and the date it was built. There were various laws of the roads depending on the type of road it was.






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 * Gutters were used for draining water, which is still their purpose today. ** ||