All Roads Lead To Rome... Traditional Cache
All Roads Lead To Rome...
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I enjoy ancient Roman history and I saw this spot as a nice location for a cache and to spread some history about the Roman Empire. The cache is a lock and lock container. I have placed a prize for the first to finder…a unactivated geocoin of an Egpytian urn/jar(with activtion code), to be used as the finder wishes. This section of 2nd lock rd. is closed do not attempt to drive on it. Please use parking coordinates.
The Roman Road System
The Romans, for military, commercial and political reasons, became adept at constructing roads, which they called 'viae' (plural of singular via). It means "to go" with the sense of transporting in a vehicle. Viae were always intended primarily as carriage roads, the means of carrying material from one location to another.
The Roman roads were essential for the growth of their empire, by enabling them to move armies speedily and by sustaining land transport for Roman mercantilism. A proverb says that "all roads lead to Rome". Roman roads were designed that way to hinder provinces organising resistance against the Empire. At its peak, the Roman road system spanned 53,000 miles and contained about 372 links.
These long highways were very important in maintaining both the stability and expansion of the empire. The legions made good time on them, and some are still used millennia later. In late Antiquity, the same roads, by offering avenues of invasion to the barbarians, contributed to Roman military reverses.
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