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Ancient Roman Roads    Roman Roads were a big part of ancient history. If you are to survive in this civilization, you will need to know everything about roman roads. Home Aquaducts    Roads   Weapons  Colosseum  Augustus Slaves

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 *           The Romans built many roads through out the mountains.
 *           There were 53,000 total miles of roads through out the entire Roman empire.
 *           The Roads provided transportation and trade for the romans.
 *         <span style="font-size: 90%; color: #ee362f; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; background-color: #f0e960;">  The Romans called the roads viae.
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #be00ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">       <span style="font-size: 90%; color: #ee362f; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; background-color: #f0e960;"> The roads provided trade for the roman armies which proved very useful in wars.
 * <span style="font-size: 90%; color: #ee362f; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; background-color: #f0e960;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #be00ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">   Most Roman roads were named after the censor. A censor is the person who ordered the road's construction.
 * <span style="font-size: 90%; color: #ee362f; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; background-color: #f0e960;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #be00ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">   They used deep roadbeds of tamped rubble which kept the roads nice and dry.
 * <span style="font-size: 90%; color: #ee362f; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; background-color: #f0e960;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #be00ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">    The twelve tabels command the Romans to build roads.
 * <span style="font-size: 90%; color: #ee362f; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; background-color: #f0e960;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #be00ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">    The roman people inherited the art of road construction from the Estruscans.
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #be00ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">  <span style="font-size: 90%; color: #ee362f; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; background-color: #f0e960;">The Roman roads were all built by hand because they did not have any machinery back then.
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #be00ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">  <span style="font-size: 90%; color: #ee362f; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; background-color: #f0e960;"> The Romans were very proud of their own roads.
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #be00ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">  <span style="font-size: 90%; color: #ee362f; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; background-color: #f0e960;"> Almost all countries use roads today in the modern world for transportation, trade, and many other things as well. Most of our ideas came from the Roman's ancient roads.