what are is the importance of roads, coinage, foreign trade, and trade within the empire?
Answer Hello, Its obvious that roads, coinage, foreign trade, and home trade were very important within the Roman Empire which reached its largest extension under the reign of Trajan (98-117AD) when it embraced England, Spain, France, Italy, Germany, all of continental Europe west of the Rhine and south of the Danube, most of Asia west of the Euphrates, Northern Africa, Greece, Turkey, Mesopotamia (today Iraq) and the islands of the Mediterranean sea. The Romans built over 53,000 miles of paved roads throughout their empire, so that the Roman road system, that was originally built to facilitate the movement of the legions, was inevitably used for other purposes by civilians, i.e. for trade, of course. The road system of the Ancient Romans was in fact one of the greatest engineering accomplishments, which radiated from their centre at the miliarium aureum( Golden Milestone) in the Forum in the city of Rome. This Golden Milestone was a gilded bronze monument erected by the Emperor August
