Someone also suggested that these large roads were used to quickly move an army from the canyon to the outlier communities, a purpose similar to the road systems known for the Roman empire.

He reformed the Roman system of taxation, developed networks of roads with an official courier system, established a standing army, established the Praetorian Guard, created official police and fire-fighting services for Rome, and rebuilt much of the City during his reign.

Moving swiftly along Roman roads, Alaric sacked the cities of Aquileia and Cremona and ravaged the lands along the Adriatic Sea.

When the Vikings returned in force in 892 they found a kingdom defended by a standing, mobile field army and a network of garrisoned fortresses that commanded its navigable rivers and Roman roads.

Alfred's military reorganisation of Wessex consisted of three elements: the building of thirty fortified and garrisoned towns ( burhs ) along the rivers and Roman roads of Wessex ; the creation of a mobile ( horsed ) field force, consisting of his nobles and their warrior retainers, which was divided into two contingents, one of which was always in the field ; and the enhancement of Wessex's seapower through the addition of larger ships to the existing royal fleet.

Hadrian's temple had actually been located there because it was the junction of the main north-south road with one of the two main east-west roads and directly adjacent to the forum ( which is now the location of the ( smaller ) Muristan ); the forum itself had been placed, as is traditional in Roman towns, at the junction of the main north-south road with the ( other ) main east-west road ( which is now El-Bazar / David Street ).

The first important human improvements were the Roman roads linking major settlements and providing quick passage for marching armies.

Roman roads

Inns in Europe were possibly first established when the Romans built their system of Roman roads two millennia ago.

" at which point the listeners outline all forms of positive aspects of the Roman occupation such as sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, public health and peace, followed by " what have the Romans ever done for us except sanitation, medicine, education ...".

Helped by the construction of Roman roads.

Roman roads around Traiectum ad Mosam

The Romanisation of Normandy was achieved by the usual methods: Roman roads and a policy of urbanisation.

The map is a result of a combination of the lines of roads and of the coasting expeditions during the first century of Roman occupation.

Between the two ends of the range, the only passes worth mentioning are the Col de la Perche, between the valley of the Têt and the valley of the Segre, the Port d ' Envalira, the highest mountain pass in the Pyrenees and one of the highest points of the European road network, and the Col de Somport or Port de Canfranc, where there were old Roman roads, but apparently, no modern highways.

The region was crisscrossed by an ancient network of trans-Carpathian roads, and vestiges of the old Roman Way are still visible.

Roman roads were a vital part of the development of the Roman state, from about 500 BC through the expansion during the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire.

Roman roads enabled the Romans to move armies and trade goods and to communicate.

The Roman road system spanned more than 400, 000 km of roads, including over 80, 500 km of paved roads.

In later antiquity, these roads played an important part in Roman military reverses by offering avenues of invasion to the barbarians.

The Roman emphasis on constructing straight roads often resulted in steep slopes relatively impractical for most commercial traffic ; over the years the Romans themselves realized this and built longer, but more manageable, alternatives to existing roads.

Crossing the Aniene and turning to the right, the path rises along the left face off the ravine and soon reaches the site of Nero's villa and of the huge mole which formed the lower end of the middle lake ; across the valley were ruins of the Roman baths, of which a few great arches and detached masses of wall still stand.

The Roman Breviary has undergone several revisions: The most remarkable of these is that by Francis Quignonez, cardinal of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme ( 1536 ), which, though not accepted by Rome ( it was approved by Clement VII and Paul III, and permitted as a substitute for the unrevised Breviary, until Pius V in 1568 excluded it as too short and too modern, and issued a reformed edition ( Breviarium Pianum, Pian Breviary ) of the old Breviary ), formed the model for the still more thorough reform made in 1549 by the Church of England, whose daily morning and evening services are but a condensation and simplification of the Breviary offices.

Bolívar's supporters, who later formed the nucleus of the Conservative Party, sought strong centralized government, alliance with the Roman Catholic Church, and a limited franchise.

It won out over numerous other suggestions because it was the name of the Roman god of the underworld, who was able to render himself invisible, and because Percival Lowell's initials PL formed the first 2 letters.

For the most part, Roman cavalry during the Republic functioned as an adjunct to the legionary infantry and formed only one-fifth of the showing force.

* 1508 – The League of Cambrai is formed by Pope Julius II, Louis XII of France, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor and Ferdinand II of Aragon as an alliance against Venice.

In the Early Middle Ages, most of the Roman craft organizations, originally formed as religious confraternities, had disappeared, with the apparent exceptions of stonecutters and perhaps glassmakers.

When Iudaea became a Roman province, formed from a merger of Judea, Samaria and Idumea, Galilee was not a part of it.

Thus, only those who could afford such weaponry fought as hoplites ; as with the Roman Republican army it was the middle classes who formed the bulk of the infantry.

He had formed an alliance with Spain and the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, but in 1493, when they went to war with France, England was dragged into the conflict.

Laycock ( Britannia the Failed State, 2008 ) has investigated this process of fragmentation and emphasised elements of continuity from the British tribes in the pre-Roman and Roman periods to the kingdoms that formed in the post-Roman period.

Temporarily the east was again dominant as the Byzantine Empire formed from the eastern half of the Roman one.

( 5 ) The union and discipline of the Christian republic, which gradually formed an independent and increasing state in the heart of the Roman empire.

If the king had joined, its resolutions would have received the sanction of the law ; but he refused, and approached the newly formed Roman Catholic League of lords, whose members pledged themselves to support the king, the Catholic Church, and the Council.

In 60 BC, Caesar, Crassus and Pompey formed a political alliance that was to dominate Roman politics for several years.

It appears from archaeology that the great cities of Lombard Italy — Pavia, Lucca, Siena, Arezzo, Milan — were themselves formed of very minute islands of urbanisation within the old Roman city walls.

This was done, and Tarquin formed combined units of Roman and Latin troops.

The 5 Ecclesiastical states of the Holy Roman Empire in Medieval Livonia were organized into the Livonian Confederation in 1418 A diet or Landtag was formed in 1419.

The barbarian invaders formed new kingdoms in the remains of the Western Roman Empire.

This strategic region formed part of the Roman Empire, governed as Mauretania Tingitana.

The Montoneros formed around 1970 out of a confluence of Roman Catholic groups, university students in social sciences, and leftist supporters of Juan Domingo Perón.

Early European American scholars described the Native Americans as having a society dominated by clans or gentes ( in the Roman model ) before tribes were formed.

By 69, when the Batavians, the original inhabitants of the Rhine and Maas delta, revolted, a village called Oppidum Batavorum had formed near the Roman camp.

Simplistically speaking, the only ' national hands ' to continue were the Visigothic ( or Mozarabic ), which survived into the 12th or 13th century ; the Beneventan, which was still being used in the middle of the 16th century ; and Insular script, which was used to write texts in the Irish at least through the 20th century and formed the basis for Gaelic type, just as caroline minuscule formed the basis for Roman type.