Roads and caravan routes of antiquity that tied empires together and carried trade across Asia and Europe. An entry belongs here when the cited article calls the road an ancient road or trade route. It excludes modern highway systems. Entries are placed by what their own cited article says, so each one sits in the narrowest group its source supports, and the group page lists it beside the other members. It is one of the groups under the Roads, Highways and Trade Routes subcategory of the Transport atlas, which has its own browse page listing every group and member.
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Wikipedia: Silk Road
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The Silk Road was a network of Asian trade routes active from the second century BCE until the mid-15th century.
Wikipedia: Roman Roads
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Roman roads (Latin: viae Romanae [ˈwiae̯ roːˈmaːnae̯]; singular: via Romana [ˈwia roːˈmaːna]; meaning "Roman way") were physical infrastructure vital to the maintenance and development of the Roman state, built from about 300 BC through the expansion and consolidation of the Roman Republic and, later, the Roman Empire.
Wikipedia: Royal Road
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The Royal Road was an ancient highway reorganized and rebuilt for trade in the 5th century BCE by the Achaemenid Empire.
Wikipedia: Grand Trunk Road
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The Grand Trunk Road is one of the oldest and longest major roads in Asia.
Wikipedia: Appian Way
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The Appian Way, also known by its Latin and Italian name,
Via Appia, is one of the earliest and strategically most important Roman roads of the ancient republic.
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