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__**Roman Roads**__

Coliseum Roads Aquaducts Nero Soldiers Merchants Home Roman Roads were used constantly for transportation purposes mainly for the Roman army and trading routes. The road differed in being wide or thin depending where it went.

 ·   The road was dug down to hard ground and layered with wood, gravel, and sand  ·   The top layer was covered in flat stones  ·   The road system was so large, that is stretched from Scotland to the Euphrates river  ·   The roads were almost always straight  ·   After a city was conquered, a road was built that led to Rome where every road led to   ·    The Roads were slightly slanted to the sides for drainage purposes  ·   Gravel on the sides of the road drained water to the underground  ·  To this day we still use the roads except that we have modified so that it is smoother and it is more firm