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The Roman soldiers built the stone-paved road, which had a military purpose, other roads which had a military utility, fortifications and garrisons when they were not campaigning. Since they were professional soldiers, when they were not campaigning their spent their time drilling and training and in construction work needed by the military.

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so they can get to places much faster and anyone who was a trader or a merchant could use these roads to get to rome

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