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Some of those roads are still there after thousands of years. Wonder if anything valuable could be gained by having a porous substrate for modern roads to sit atop.
They already do in many cases, like shown here https://www.britannica.com/technology/road/The-modern-road
I can’t even imagine the amount of labor that went into building these without machinery.
Slavery. Roman society ran on it.
Slaves were more often employed in agriculture and unskilled industry (some nightmarish conditions there - slaves in the mines had a life expectancy of six months). Roads were often constructed by the Legions and Auxiliaries. Good way to keep soldiers busy and out of trouble in peacetime.
Why not put some extra nucleus on top of the pavimentum for a smoother ride? I’d think cobbles would be brutal in a suspensionless chariot
Well, Roman roads were made primarily for foot-traffic.
Oh I guess that makes sense then. Assumed all the effort to make them so durably flat was for wheels
