A network that shaped our present: ~400,000 km of roads connecting thousands of cities & villages.
An emblematic physical manifestation of complex adaptive systems, allowing for goods, people and cultures to flow through continents and flourish along millennia.
From this map of Roman roads one can see where the winters are icy, snowy and awful in the Iberian peninsula ... Barely any roads.
The map also shows us how much the climate has changed: modern-day Tunisia and Northern Algeria where strong agricultural lands. Quite the contrast with today.
@albertcardona Exactly! That's in the keyword 'complex adaptive': since they have built a great infrastructure that at their time was satisfying their needs.
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