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paved roads make travel and transport easier, faster and more reliable. Non paved roads can be washed away by rain or made impassable by water pools and mud. In urban areas they also prevent the dust which levelled earth roads can create.

If you are referring to the stone-paved roads of the Romans, they had a military purpose. They made the movement of soldiers and the delivery of supplies to troops at the front or stationed in garrisons much easier and faster. They were also used for general travel and the transport of goods for trade. Their military nature was also shown in by the fact that they were usually built on a straight line, even when they crossed hilly areas. Traders also used these roads to transport their goods. They complained that the straight tracts over steep gradients made it very difficult for their laden wagons. After these complaints at least some of these tracts were redesigned to allow for less steep gradients.

Only about 20% of the Roman roads (80,500km, 50,313 miles) were stone-paved roads.

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