CrissmanTeichowRoads

ANCIENT ROMAN ROADS!  Roads Aqueducts Nero Circus Maximus Slaves     crissmanteichowlifeofaromansoldier ANCIENT ROMAN ROADS!  J       When living in ancient rome it was very important to have good roads. what if you lived in a city with horrible roads that would not be good!  ·   When your living in A ncient Rome and you’re a soldier your going to need to have preferably nice roads to walk on. Primarily for the rapid movement of the troops, in the roman army.  ·    If you were living in Rome in the second century in A.D. you would have 372 roman roads and they would be about 53,000 miles in length. The widest road was 40 feet wide. They were very spacios  ·   The Romans learned there road building techniques from the mysterious Etruscans!  ·   Sometimes stone was transported into rome because they had to little to make do with. Instead they used there own natural materials  ·   If you made roads in ancient Rome you would have a thin layer of gravel and crushed limestone, also contained by parallel rows of closely placed large stones. There is also a base layer of sand. And then it is covered with another layer of limestone. Then there is slabs of lava, up to 15 inches.  ·   When on the roads of ancient Rome the surfaces slope down from the center to allow rainwater to runoff into flanking ditches.  ·   A Roman mile is shorter than a regular street mile. this picture shows what a romanroad looks like!!

This is a road that has a run-off drainage system the roads are slightly slantid!