Hermanowski-Roads

 **Roads** **Aqueducts** **Hadrian** **Weapons and Supplies of a Roman Soldier** **Daily Life of a Slave** **Colosseum****Home**  1.  In the city of Rome most of the residential streets were unnamed and there were no sidewalks and streets were narrow and crooked.   2. W  alking in the streets of Rome was often dangerous and messy because people often disposed of trash by throwing it out of the windows so if you wanted to avoid going home with “leftovers” on your head then you would be safest walking on the far right (or left) of the street. 3.  Roman roads were called viae (plural) and via (singular). 4.  Roman roads were very important because they were used to move their armies, trade goods, and to spread news. 5.  Many of the Roman roads were built as “carriage roads”. They were used to carry materials from place to place. 6.  Most roads were named after the person who ordered the construction and sometimes they were named after their destination. 7.  Laws of the Twelve Tables determined how roads were built, for example a straight road should be 8 feet wide. 8. M  ilestones were placed on the roads to let the person know how for they traveled. 9.  There were “way stations” for public officials and the road and people used then for lodging and food. 10.  Private shelters on the sides of the roads had to (by law) provide shelter and hospitality for travelers. 11.  The only allowed vehicles on roads in the cities were for married women and government officials. 12.  Roads were constructed by the soldiers digging a ditch then layering rocks over stones and adding gravel on top then a concrete layer was added over this. 13.  Roman citizens could not use the roads for free they usually had to pay a toll. 14.  it is often said that “all roads lead to Rome” and it is true at one point they did because each time a city was founded a road was built from that city back to Rome. 15.  The roads that connected to the growing empire were a total of 53,819 miles! 16.  The most famous roman road is called “ Walting Street ” built in England     and parts of it are still used today and it has the same name. Where the Romans built a road towns were built along it and those towns are still important to many people today. This is a fragment of an old Roman road
 * Roman R o ad  Trip! **

this is a map of all the Roman roads