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Map of all roads in Ancient Rome If you needed to survive in Ancient Rome, you would need an efficient way to get around. The roads would be the best way to travel. There were many roads in Ancient Rome, and they were often used. This page will tell you the common purposes for roads and how they were built. **__ Construction-  __**  §   Roads were constructed by the Roman  Republic  §   Romans learned their building technique from the methods of Etruscan.  §   They were constructed of gravel with a stable bed to improve drainage.  §   The dimensions of the road varied according to the importance of the road.  §   They used paving stones for heavily paved sections of the roads.  §   The depth of the roads to the surface to the bottom of the base was up to 5 feet deep.  §   Roman roads were strong enough to support half-ton wheeled wagons.  §   Under normal traffic roads could last up to 100 years  §   The purpose of the roman roads was mainly to transport the military more easily.  §    It could also be used for normal transportation.  Roman Roads media type="custom" key="2992336" The connection to modern day of roman roads would be the roads that we travel on today. Of course their roads could not hold as many vehicles as our interstates do today but they all have the same idea; to make traveling easier.
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