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Construction and Purpose of Roman Roads  **Home**  Aquaducts -  Colosseum -  Roads  -  Augustus Caesar  -  Weapons-Senate Roman Roads? Why are they important? The Roman Roads were essential for expanding the growth of the Roman Empire. Do you know the history behind the Roads? You better start studying…now!



Note to self:  ·  Each time a city was conquered, a rode was built from the city back to Rome.  ·  Roads were only built straight.  ·  Many of the roads had gutters running on the sides.  ·  Along the sides of the roads, there were also signs called milestones.  ·  Since Rome was the heart of Greece, the milestones told how far it was back to Rome , and sometimes gave the date, and who paid for the road.  ·  Intelligently, the Romans built roads sloped down from the middle to ditches on either side. This way the rain would drain away and not make it too muddy. <span style="font-size: 16pt; color: #00cc00; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  There had been no formal traffic code. (as in what side to drive on) <span style="font-size: 16pt; color: #00cc00; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  The dangers of traveling on the roads were that you could be ambushed by robbers. <span style="font-size: 16pt; color: #00cc00; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  <span style="font-size: 16pt; color: #00cc00; font-family: 'DejaVu Sans Light'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'DejaVu Sans'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">The Romans drove standard chariot form decending from to the Romans from a greater quality. <span style="font-size: 16pt; color: #00cc00; font-family: 'DejaVu Sans Light'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'DejaVu Sans';"> <span style="font-size: 16pt; color: #00cc00; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  A saying is said that “All roads lead to Rome ” because there were so many roads in Rome, and they all leaded to Rome.

A Milestone

Modern Day Connection: Instead of millions of straight line roads, we now have highways.