RomanRoad

**Introduction**
Romans were one of wealthiest civilizations ever to have existed in the ancient times. The Romans had great leaders, very strong military, wealthy citizens, and governments, including roads. Roads were one of the greatest and most famous things the Romans felt very proud of. There were so many roads linking from Rome, it is almost impossible to name every single one of them.

**Road fact**
The Romans roads have existed for nearly 4,000 years. They were mostly used for trade, and most commonly used for crossing swamps, rivers and many other different situations or places. In total there were more then 50,000 miles (80,000km) of roads and 371 road links extending from Rome. Roman roads were well known, and popular for straightness from using concrete made from Pozzolana (volcanic ash), limestone, use of cambered surfaces, and use of facilitating drainage. URL: http://www.tqnyc.org/NYC052265/ROMAN%20ROADS_files/image005.jpg

**Road kinds**
The first road ever to be built was Via Egnatain. It was built in 145 B.C. and was the extension of Via Appia. It also joined the ancient Persian Royal Road in Adriatic into Greece and Asia Minor. Appius Caecus created the first Great road in 312 B.C. The road was called Via Appia (Appian way). It was 164 miles long and it linked Rome to the modern Toronto. Beginning of the 200 B.C. 4 more great roads were built. They were called Via Aurelia, Via Flaminia, Via Aemilia, and Via Valeria. Via Aurelia led to Geno, Via Flaminia led to Adriatic and later joins Via Aemilia. Via Aemilia crosses Rubicon and later led to Via Valeria which led across the peninsula to the Lake Fucinus, Via Latina joins Via Appia near Capuano.



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**Road technology**
Romans had a complete different way of building a road. The Romans dug a trench about 1 meter deep and then the trench was filled with layers of large stones, gravels, and then another layers of sand, flint, and finally paved with flat stones. This is skill was usually used for building up just simple roads. Another way to build roads was by building up with Earth banks called agger. Later huge stones were placed on top of the agger and when it was finished, it could be 15 meter wide, and 1.5 meter high. This system was used for making huge and famous roads. The road surface was not leveled but they were curbed upward. This was really necessary because water puddles could freeze the construction and damage the road. This was needed for every road when it was constructing.



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Ending
The Romans made a proverb ‘All roads lead to Rome’ because they thought their roads were probably the best in the world. The Romans were proud of everything they have. Roads were one of the most important tools for all mankind.

Sources:
Central, 2006.
 * Book: Maynard, Charles Williams. __The Technology of Ancient Rome__. New York: Rosen
 * Website: [|http://britannicaschool.eb.com/all/eb/article-9083820?query=Ancient%20roman%20roads&ct=]