Roman Road-Construction.: Roman roads had to stand up to wheeled vehicles, draft animals and weather. They were constructed in layers and designed to handling all these factors. They even had controlled access.
Ancient Roman roads were a fundamental asset in the success of the Roman empire, its economy, transport and military success. the network of roads in the Roman empire and Roman roads construction techniques enabled long term effectiveness and lower cost
Roman road system, outstanding transportation network of the ancient Mediterranean world, extending from Britain to the Tigris-Euphrates river system and from the Danube River to Spain and northern Africa. In all, the Romans built 50,000 miles (80,000 km
The distinction between staff and line officers applied to the Roman army as well. Among the staff officers were a unit called the architecti, "chief builders", responsible for all military construction, which road-building was. These were required to be educated men. Geometry, of course, was...
The Appian Way, known as the queen of all roads, is a paved road of more than 500 kilometers, averaging six meters in width and slightly convex in surface in order to facilitate good drainage. Named after Roman statesman Appius Claudius Caecus, also the initiator of the walkway, the road...
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One of the main reasons behind ancient Rome’s impeccable and effective administration of such a vast empire was the construction of one of the most sophisticated systems of roads in ancient times. Roman roads and highways played a pivotal role in the rise of the Roman state, expanding all ac...
Roman Building Materials:Stoneas a building material in Ancient Rome Durable basalt stone paving on an ancient roman road. Stone was clearly an important material for construction and the Romans were highly skilled in quarrying it and in using the different types of stone in different types of ...
The first major Roman road—the famed Appian Way, or “queen of the roads”—was constructed in 312 B.C. to serve as a supply route between republican Rome and its allies in Capua during the Second Samnite War. From then on, road systems often sprang from Roman conquest. As the legi...
The main street in central Rome is the Via del Corso, an important thoroughfare since Classical times, when it was the Via Flaminia, the road to the Adriatic. Its present name comes from the horse races (corse) that were part of the Roman carnival celebrations. From the foot of the Capit...