alt Hacker News>The Roman Empire merely improved roads in many places.
why did they invest in those roads? They weren't a charity.
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nephihaha • last Tuesday at 1:02 AM
So that they could move troops and goods from one place to another.
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>The Roman Empire merely improved roads in many places.
why did they invest in those roads? They weren't a charity.
So that they could move troops and goods from one place to another.
Rome was entirely reliant upon the looting and expansion of the empire to support them. Without building up those roads Rome would have starved and fallen apart.