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5,200 years
The oldest wooden wheel yet found was pulled from a marsh near Ljubljana. It is about 5,200 years old.
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50 km
The aqueduct to Nîmes ran 50 kilometers and fell only a few centimeters every hundred meters.
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80,000 km
At its height Rome had more than 400,000 kilometers of roads, about 80,000 of them paved with stone.
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300 km a day
The Mongol relay, the Yam, kept fresh horses at stations across the empire. An urgent message could cover 300 kilometers in a day.
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30 to 60 km
Stations sat every 30 to 60 kilometers. No rider crossed the empire. Every message did.
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476
The Western Roman Empire is usually said to have fallen in 476. The stones stayed.
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