Roman Roads
By: Michael Butzer & Connor Halverson
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Significance
The significance of the roman roads is that people where able to travel from one side of the roman empire in less than a month without getting tired from all the strenuous travel and that where able to bring more with them and where less likely to get stuck in ditches or in holes full of mud. This is very important because the rulers of Rome where now able to take there army and all there equipment and soldiers across the country. The people where also able to take there wares and culture to different provinces of Rome and so cultural diffusion was able to happen in Rome. With all of these roads in central Rome and all of its territories, Rome was able to maintain its magnificent empire.

Major Roads In Rome
- *Via Aemilia, from Rimini to Placentia
- **Via Appia, the Appian Way (312 BC) from Rome to Apulia
- **Via Aurelia (241 BC) from Rome to France
- **Via Cassia, from Rome to Tuscany
- *Via Flaminia (220 BC) from Rome to Rimini
- Via Raetia, from Verona north across the Brenner Pass
- **Via Salaria, from Rome to the Adriatic Sea
*- Means parts of it are still intact
**- Still alive
