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Ride tracker: How animals, wheels, trade steered the history of the road
Then came flagstones (as stone-cutting tools improved), cobblestones (uncomfortable for humans but good to keep horses’ hooves from slipping) and tar (traces of which have been found in 8th century CE Baghdad roads).Roads kept empires stable. They became …