Roman Road System
- Extended from Britain to the Tigris-Euphrates river system and from the Danube River to Spain and northern Africa.
- Built 50,000 miles of hard-surfaced highway, primarily for military reasons.
- The laws of the Twelve Tables, specified the specific length and width every road would be made.
- Roads varied of the on the materials they were made up of such as, corduroy roads to paved roads using tamped rubble.
- 3 types of roads: public high or main roads-constructed and maintained at the public expense, private or country road-originally constructed by private individuals, and roads at or in the villages, districts or crossroads leading through or toward a village.
- Financing road building was a Roman government responsibility.
- Tolls were put on the roads, especially at bridges.
- Road maintenance was taken care of by the province.
- First road ran southwest of Rome for 162 miles. Constructed in 312 B.C.E.
- By beginning of 2nd century B.C.E. four more roads were added.