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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: It evolved by the frequency it was used and where it was used!. For some places, they preffered a single horse, whilst some they preffered carriages and stuff!. Cobblestone was used for a while, even when the first cars were being used!. Here's some history on it!.!.!. Stone paved streets are found in the city of Ur in the Middle East dating back to 4000 BC[3] Corduroy roads (log roads) are found dating to 4,000 BC in Glastonbury, England[3] The timber trackway; Sweet Track causeway in England, is one of the oldest engineered roads discovered and the oldest timber trackway discovered in Northern Europe!. Built in winter 3807 BC or spring 3806 BC, tree-ring dating (Dendrochronology) enabled very precise dating!. It has been claimed to be the oldest road in the world!.[12][13] Brick paved streets were used in India as early as 3000 BC[3] In 500 BC, Darius I the Great started an extensive road system for Persia (Iran), including the famous Royal Road which was one of the finest highways of its time!.[14] The road remained in use after Roman times!. In ancient times, transport by river was far easier and faster than transport by road,[13] especially considering the cost of road construction and the difference in carrying capacity between carts and river barges!. A hybrid of road transport and ship transport beginning in about 1740 is the horse-drawn boat in which the horse follows a cleared path along the river bank!.[15][16] From about 312 BC, the Roman Empire built straight[17] strong stone Roman roads throughout Europe and North Africa, in support of its military campaigns!. At its peak the Roman Empire was connected by 29 major roads moving out from Rome and covering 78,000 kilometers or 52,964 Roman miles of paved roads!.[13] In the 700s AD, many roads were built throughout the Arab Empire!. The most sophisticated roads were those of the Baghdad, Iraq, which were paved with tar in the 8th century!. Tar was derived from petroleum, accessed from oil fields in the region, through the chemical process of destructive distillation!.[18] In the 1600s road construction and maintenance in Britain was traditionally done on a local parish basis!.[13] This resulted in a poor and variable state of roads!. To remedy this, the first of the "Turnpike Trusts" was established around 1706, to build good roads and collect tolls from passing vehicles!. Eventually there were approximately 1,100 Trusts in Britain and some 36,800 km of engineered roads!.[13] The Rebecca Riots in Carmarthenshire and Rhayader from 1839 to 1844 contributed to a Royal Commission leading to the demise of the system in 1844!.[19] according to http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/Road So it rlly depends on which country you mean, and which area!. Everywhere changed differently due to culture, technoogy and money and standard of living etc!. also depended on the administration!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com I lived in a town (Barnard Castle, Co!. Durham, England) where cobbles are still very much in evidence!. My wife hated walking them in high heels!Www@QuestionHome@Com |