The Romans built the famous stone-paved roads (the via munita), which had military purposes. They speeded up the movement of troops to the front and made the transport of supplies to the soldiers at the front or stationed in garrisons quicker and easier. However, the stone-paved roads constituted only 20% of the network of roads around the Roman Empire. The Romans also built gravelled roads (the via glareata) and earthwork roads (the via terrena).
The Kingdom of Ghana became powerful by taxing gold merchants who passed through its lands. In contrast, the Umayyad Empire extended its power through campaigns of conquest by Islamic armies.
The Inkas built an empire, their lands was big and covered many current countries like Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina, their big city was Cuzco
The highways in the Eastern United States are built both on high lands and on low lands. The highways are built where they are needed.
1. Wu Di sent soldiers north to drive back tribes who tried to attack the empire. He also used armies to add more lands to the empire. To pay for his troops and growing empire, the emperor created new taxes.
High lands
The Arab Empire spread to all of Southwest Asia, Damascus, North Africa, Spain, and then eastward into the lands beyond Persia.
The British Empire
They began to conquer new lands.
They began to conquer new lands.
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The German Empire.
How were lands that were once part of the Byzantine Empire added to the Islamic world?