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**__ The Construction and use of The Roman Roads __**

The Roman Roads were very important to the Roman cities, so important that the Romans didn't built anything until the roads were done. The cites concisted of two main streets that lead to the forum which is the center of the city, the architects would first make a map of what the roads would look like, the roads had to be planned very careful because if the roads came out wrong ther would be bad circulation. The workers would mark where the roads would be made, after that is done the workers dig small ditches on the edges of the road but the middle was left the way it was, the the side insides of the side ditches were filled with a row of curbstones, then the workers made a big ditch in the middle which was filled with sones of varying sizes, the top layer formed the pavement and rose slightly in the center so that the water would slide into the ditches. The top would then be filled with bigger stones.