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Rome’s Golden Age with Tom Holland

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The Importance of Transport in the Roman Empire

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The scale of the Roman Empire in this period, I mean, we're so habituated. It's possible for your brain not to engage with the sheer scale of the lands and territories that are ruled by the Caesars. And also what an achievement it was to maintain transport links between all these various parts. The Pyrenees is a stronghold because it's protected by the Pyrenees. In the long run, it's these kind of fracture points that will lead to the disintegration of the Empire in the West.

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