Other than the roads, what did the Romans ever do for us?
:’D
In Britain, Roman roads (other than bridges, which have for the most part vanished throughout the former territory of the empire) remained in use wherever the economics worked out, and a lot of the landscape turned out to be ideal for their preservation almost to the point of what one could almost call intact. :’) One of the major Roman roads, the one to Eboracum (York), was topped with asphalt when that modern method came into vogue, and the original road remained underneath.
‘Other than the roads, what did the Romans ever do for us?’
“The aqueduct?”
“And the sanitation!”
“Irrigation ... Medicine ... Education ... Health”
“And the wine ... “
“Public baths! AND it’s safe to walk in the streets at night now.”
“R: All right ... all right ... but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order ... what HAVE the Romans ever done for US?”
“X: Brought peace!”
Its greatest achievement -— Well the Greek speaking Eastern Roman Empire from its capital Constantinople kept the Muslim hordes at bay until 1453 AD and 2- stopped the persecutions of and legalized the Christian faith allowing it to spread all over the world.