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How to Survive the Roads of Rome !!! Source: ABC Clio Aqueducts Colosseum Homepage Army Tiberius Slave The roads were made by the Roman republic which you probably know, mainly for the rapid movement of troops in the Roman army, yeah fighting. The roman roads are the most famous and extensive system of roads made in the ancient Mediterranean world because th romans are awesome. By the second century, roman engineers had built a network of 372 roman roads that added together totaled about 53,000 miles in length or something like that so don't get lost, beginning in  Scotland   and ending at the   Euphrates     River its a long system, So Don't Get Lost. The Romans learned their road building from the mysterious Etruscans of north-central   Italy its creepy steeling ideas. Etruscan engineers constructed gravel roads it'll be bumpy. Using Etruscan methods as a guideline, Roman engineers developed road-building techniques, including the great use of paving stones for heavily used sections of roads. Roman roads were usually laid upon a carefully constructed embankment agger to provide a foundation. Rubble laid in such a way as to provide proper water drainage for the base. The dimensions of the agger varied according to the importance of the road. Sometimes it may have Ibeen just a small ridge, but on major routes, it could be up to five feet high and 50 feet wide WOOHOO. I TOLD YOU NOT TO GET LOST. I'm not coming to get you. I gave you far warning.

For very minor roads, no embankment was built, but two rows of curbstones defined the carriageway ooo FANCY. Overall, the depth of a Roman road from the surface to the bottom of the base was up to five feet. It seems that road width varied according to function, importance, and topography. The widest was 40 feet wide wow, while a minor road might be only eight feet thats small don't drive off. Rural thoroughfares were generally 20 feet, but all roads became narrower over difficult terrain; some mountain passes, at less than 10 feet, were too narrow and often too steep for carts. Although stone was sometimes transported from a few miles away, local material was normally used. Of course, that practice gave rise to differences in construction along the length of a road. The  Appian Way  , or Via Appia, was the first great Roman road and was known admiringly as the "queen of roads". Construction began in 312 B.C. at the initiative of the censor Appius Claudius Caecus. Initially connecting  Rome   to   Capua  , the road later extended to   Brindisi   , an important port of trade in southeastern   Italy   more than 350 miles from the capital. Other roads followed.

This is a modern day road.