davisconstructionanduseofromanroads

Links: Home , Entertainment , Weapons and Supplies of a Roman Soldier,   Construction and use of Roman Roads,   Aqueducts, Slavery, Augustus Caesar The Construction and use of Roman Roads What if there were no roads, how would we get around? Besides walking of course. Lucky for you there are roads in Ancient Rome. The roads the Ancient Romans built had to be thought out carefully so that they wouldn’t flood and so they wouldn’t crumble. The people who worked on these roads had to have been very smart in order to avoid all these problems. This page is about the construction and use of these roads. This section is in here because if you're smart you could get a job building roads to earn some money, so these are some facts to help you learn how to build roads. <span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">//<span style="display: block; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: left;">Source: Roman News //   <span style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: left;"> 1<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Roman Roads helped emperors send messages quickly. 2.  Roads also helped soldiers travel from one area to another more quickly. 3.  Roads were very straight and drained very efficiently in Rome. 4.  There was a network of 372 Roman Roads that totaled about 53,000 miles in length, beginning in Scotland and ending at the Euphrates River. 5.  The Romans used Etruscan methods of road building as guidelines for building their roads. 6.  Romans developed the technique of paving stones for heavily used sections of roads, to create enduring structures. 7.  Roads were usually laid upon a carefully constructed embankment to provide to provide foundation- rubble laid in such a way to provide proper drainage- for the base. 8.  The dimensions of the agger varied according to the importance of the road. 9.  The Appian Way was the first great Roman Road and was known as “the queen of roads.” 10.  The Romans began building roads outside of Italy in 148 B.C. with the construction of the Via Egnata. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Modern roads still use some of the same methods of construction that the Romans used.