Roman+roads

=** roads: **=

-allowed merchants and soldiers to range far into the Sahara Desert
 * stretched along the northeast imperial frontier from the Black Sea to the North Sea
 * linked Rome to the city of Gades in southern Spain
 * another ran parallel to the coast of north Africa
 * route link from the port of Berenice on the Red Sea to Alexandria as well as other towns and prts of the eastern Mediterranean seaboard to Panmyra (way station of caravan traffic coming from central Asia)



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