canals, then when they became widespread railways (railroads in US)
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on rivers
Production of goods and many other things changed greatly due to mechanisation and huge improvements in steam power.
The same way people today sneeze.
One way American's improved the roads in the early 1800s is by private companies building turnpikes. America was moving from horse and buggy to motorcars in the 1800s.
horses
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boats
boats
on rivers
In those days ships and riverboats and barges were very popular where possible and when it had to go overland horses or oxen pulled wagons with the goods.
the distance is 678 miles
because they needed a way to move their troops and goods around their empire
Yes it was because soviet citizens found their personal freedoms limited, consumer goods in short supply, and dissent prohibited.
Basically as a result of trade. as the British moved further afield in search of trading goods they found that the best way for them to get the best prices and control the goods in such a way that other Europeans country's could not access them was to invade the country's with the goods. The Dutch had a similar policy.
Production of goods and many other things changed greatly due to mechanisation and huge improvements in steam power.