BlatnickRomanRoads

Roman Roads   Aqueducts         Roman roads     The Colosseum                   Roman Soldier       Daily life of a Slave     Augustus Caesar Home page If you find your self in The Ancient Roman Empire you will need to get around but first you have to know a    few facts about the way the roads work and what they were used for.  First, the roads were constructed by the Roman Republic. Primarily for the movement  of the Roman Army, and a messager system that delivered important messages to the   different cities. By the second century A.D. Roman Engineers built a network of 372  Roman   roads that totaled about 53,000 miles. You may want to now the boundaries, the    roads began in Scotland and ended at the Euphrates River. The Roman roads were  usually laid upon a carefully constructed embankment to provide a foundation. Rubble      was laid in such a way to provide proper drainage for the base. Sometimes they may have been          just a small ridge, but on major routes the roads could     be up to 5 feet tall and 50 feet wide. For                  other major roads, no embankments were built, but two roads of curbstones to define the              <span style="color: rgb(20, 156, 255);">carriage way. <span style="color: rgb(57, 245, 15);">If you had to get through narrow mountain passes you may find that the roads get             <span style="color: rgb(57, 245, 15);">very narrow and steep, your cart may have a hard time on these roads, so you may what to find              <span style="color: rgb(57, 245, 15);">another way around.

<span style="color: rgb(0, 132, 255);"> The photo below of the stucture of the road is very similar to drainage in todays roads,    <span style="color: rgb(0, 132, 255);">next to most roads there are ditches or groves in the ground dug out by the city. When it   <span style="color: rgb(0, 132, 255);">rains the thats flows off down the small hill and travels to a drainage lake, just like ancient    <span style="color: rgb(0, 132, 255);">Roman roads.