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Roman Transportation pages 4-7, 10-15 How much do you know about…? • Mankato • The Cities • Athens, Greece • Timbuktu • Hypothesis? • The further away from home, the less you know AD150- How did they travel? • They didn’t! • Rarely left their villages But when they did… how’d they do it? Foot Horseback Horse-drawn carts Roman Roads Wagon= 60 mi/day paved highways= 50,000 miles How did Roman merchants and government officials travel? Caravans In Asia and the Middle East? Roman merchants traded with… • China • India • Southeast Asia No Cell Phones in Ancient Rome? • One way messages, carried by hand • messengers= 25mi/day • Official Roman postal service= 100mi/day (horses/carriages) Soldiers rode horses for speed... · stirrup · Chinese · bit · Middle East · horseshoe · Romans Making Sailing Easier… (and safer!) lateen sail- sail more easily in any direction, even with wind sternpost rudderpaddle to help steer magnetic compassneedle points north, helps navigate in storms
