stackyFACTSThe phrase 'all roads lead to Rome' was a literal infrastructural mandate.
The phrase 'all roads lead to Rome' was a literal infrastructural mandate. Authorities placed a gilded bronze monument in the central forum, and every single highway marker placed across the massive empire measured its exact distance back to that precise spot. It was a staggering display of centralized ego, ensuring that a traveler perfectly understood how far away they were from the bureaucratic center of the universe.
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