{"id":10118,"date":"2020-08-25T16:15:43","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T20:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=10118"},"modified":"2020-08-25T16:15:43","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T20:15:43","slug":"the-roads-of-rome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=10118","title":{"rendered":"The Roads of Rome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I keep reading about ancient Rome. Part of the reason, of course, is that every so often, looking in particular at American politics, I wonder if we are witnessing history repeating itself.<\/p>\n<p>But there was a lot more to ancient Rome than politics and palace intrigue.<\/p>\n<p>Take their roads. They knew how to build roads! Holy Roman macaroni, some of the roads built two thousands years ago are still in use!<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if Roman roads represented the first properly engineered road network in history, but they certainly were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crystalinks.com\/romeroads.html\">properly engineered<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crystalinks.com\/romeroads.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10119\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/RomeRoads2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"574\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/RomeRoads2.jpg 574w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/RomeRoads2-300x163.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 574px) 100vw, 574px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And there were a lot of roads in ancient Rome. Apparently, they had some 80,000 km of paved roads, and several hundred thousand kilometers of additional roadways criss-crossing the realm.<\/p>\n<p>An Internet data scientist and cartographer, Sasha Trubetskoy, created a <a href=\"https:\/\/sashamaps.net\/docs\/maps\/roman-roads-original\/\">fantastic map<\/a> of the major Roman roadways in the style of modern subway maps.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sashamaps.net\/docs\/maps\/roman-roads-original\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10124 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/roman_roads_24_jun-small.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"849\" height=\"639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/roman_roads_24_jun-small.png 849w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/roman_roads_24_jun-small-300x226.png 300w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/roman_roads_24_jun-small-768x578.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 849px) 100vw, 849px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It truly is amazing that two thousand years ago, it was possible to circumnavigate the Mediterranean via paved roads and regular service stations, making it possible for a determined traveler to travel several hundred kilometers in a day.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=10118' send='false' layout='button_count' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I keep reading about ancient Rome. Part of the reason, of course, is that every so often, looking in particular at American politics, I wonder if we are witnessing history repeating itself. But there was a lot more to ancient Rome than politics and palace intrigue. Take their roads. They knew how to build roads! <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=10118' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-25-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10125,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10118\/revisions\/10125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}