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 Roman Roads

Every day in life people take the creation of roads for granted. Well just imagine living back in the B.C. without roads? Yeah kind of hard well thanks to the Great Roman Empire we have roads. There creation of roads didn’t only help there civilization but helped every country or state in the world!! They built these roads not for trade but for there army so that it would be easier to get around there huge empire. They did this because of how bi the empire was. With it being so big getting soldier to places on rugged terrain was hard. So to stop this problem they built the first road. This road was called the Via Appia 312 B.C. and this road took 100 years to build. This road was 3 ½ feet deep and filled with different layers of road. This is why making these roads were so dangerous. People fell in and some people just died of exhaustion. They also had stones to mark every mile. The next thing you are probably thinking is how the people of Ancient Rome got across rivers or something. Well not only did they make roads they made bridges! Yeah you heard me right bridges in the B.C. Because of these roads and bridges the Ancient Roman trade flourished.