How Did We Use Roads In Ancient Roman

Today there are many inventions or creations that we use or used and impact us. One of these inventions/creations is roads. Roads are built in different ways from the original and look different from the original because of technological advances and also keep specific parts that were already useful. The use/purpose for roads are very similar when they are built.

In the Roman Empire there were roads. They used roads to help organize the empire mainly be use of its size and using roads helped to make everything better for the Empire and its success. One way they ended up helping the Empire was that it helped Rome's military by having connection with all of their captured cities and made it easier to access. Adding on to how roads helped Rome not only did the fact alone that the military could go to a place without getting lost the roads were almost always designed for an arrow straight design and made the roads much more efficient for Rome's military forces. As if that weren't enough these roads were also well protected and

Just like today they had their own version of our road signs we see or we had our own version of their "mile markers"m either way it still gets the point across. These mile markers were stone pillars that gave information such as the distance from there to the nearest town(in Roman miles), the best places to stop, when it was built, who built it, and she it was last fixed/worked on. When the romans constructed the roads they used multiple layers for durability and flatness. They began by digging 3 feet trenches and having small walls on either side of the soon to be road, the bottom of this soon to be road was usually made of leveled earth and mortar or sand topped with small stones. Then another layer was put on which was made up of crushed rocks or gravel cemented with lime mortar, the surface layer was made by using neatly arrange blocks of gravel, pebbles, iron ore, or hardened volcanic