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Roman Road s   Roman Roads

The Romans invented roads. When you’re in Rome, you will need to know all about them. You will use them a lot. You may even have to build one. You will learn the rules of the roads, how they were built, and important facts. How were they built? Rules of the road: Important facts: ** The highways allowed perfect communication between the capital and provinces. This made them the most organized ancient civilization in history. **
 * The roads were built as smooth and straight as possible. That helped travel move as quickly as possible. They were built so well that some are still here today. To build them, a ditch was built, then filled with base material, then layered with stones and gravel. Sometimes they were paved. **
 * There were no official traffic laws for the roads. Along the road, there were milestones showing how many miles to **** Rome **** . All roads had to end up in **** Rome **** . All of the roads had to be straight. **
 * The roads were built by soldiers who were supervised by engineers. But the soldiers only built them between military campaigns. Most roads were wide with a slightly rounded top. This allowed rainwater to run into the ditches on the side. **

Connection to our society: ** The Romans were the first to build roads. We currently use a modified version of their design to build our own roads. Without roads, we would have no way of knowing where we were going .**

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