Examples of Wilderness Road in the following topics:
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- The Wilderness Road was a westward route used by many immigrants that stretched from Virginia through the Appalachian mountains.
- The Wilderness Road refers to the primary route used by settlers for over fifty years to reach Kentucky from the eastern seaboard.
- By 1840, the Wilderness Road was largely abandoned, although modern highways still follow much of its original route.
- The Wilderness Road also served as the primary means of commercial transport for the early settlers in Kentucky.
- Course of the Wilderness Road, through Tennessee and Kentucky, by 1785.
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- For more than fifty years, European-American settlers used the Wilderness Road as the primary route to reach Kentucky from the eastern seaboard.
- Because the Appalachian Mountains formed a natural barrier and made passage to the West nearly impossible, Daniel Boone established the Wilderness Road in 1775, when he created a trail for the Transylvania Company from Virginia through central Kentucky.
- The Wilderness Road was steep and rough, and it only could be traversed on foot or horseback, making passage difficult.
- In the span of a few decades, more than 200,000 settlers and invaders traveled via the Wilderness Road.
- By 1840, the Wilderness Road was largely abandoned, although modern highways still follow much of its original route.
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- Though this Wilderness Road was steep and rough, and could only be traversed on foot or horseback, it became the primary route for thousands of settlers moving west at the turn of the century.
- In 1811, construction began on the National Road or Cumberland Road, the first major improved highway in the United States to be built by the federal government.
- Heading west from Cumberland on the Potomac River, this road crossed the Allegheny Mountains and southwestern Pennsylvania, reaching Wheeling, Virginia (now West Virginia) in 1818.
- Ease of travel on the National Road contributed to the rapid decline of the Wilderness Road.
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- The Silk Road was established by China's Han Dynasty, and led to cultural integration across a vast area of Asia.
- Control of the Silk Road would shuttle between China and Tibet until 737 CE.
- This second Pax Sinica helped the Silk Road reach its golden age.
- However, as the Mongol Empire disintegrated, so did the Silk Road.
- In this map of the Silk Road, red shows the land route and blue shows the maritime route.
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- It was largely the popularity of this type of bicycle at this time that precipitated the paving of roads.
- Modern participants frequent publicly owned natural resources such as national and state parks, wilderness areas, and commercial campgrounds.
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- Foundry sand used in metal casting, for example, can be recycled into sub-base filling for road construction, road embankments and structural fill.
- In India, for example, discarded plastic bottles and bags are being shredded, melted and added to roadway asphalt to improve the integrity, water resistance and durability of paved roads.
- Apparently, roads embedded with melted plastic last three times longer than conventional roads (although keep in mind that the environmental impact of this practice is unknown).
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- The Inca Empire utilized complex road systems, recording tools, and a hierarchical rule of law to oversee the administration of its vast population.
- Measuring about 24,800 miles long, this road system connected
the the regions of the empire and was the most complex
and lengthy road system in South America at the time.
- The roads varied
in width and style because often the Inca leaders utilized roads that
already existed to create this powerful network.
- Common people
could not use these official roads unless they were given permission
by the government.
- Understand the importance of the governing bodies, road system, recording tools, and social hierarchy of the Inca Empire
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- In the 17th and 18th centuries, the public extolled the pioneer who overcame great hardships to carve a home and a way of life out of the wilderness.
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- In the nineteenth century, the construction of roads, rails, and canals dramatically improved national mobility.
- In eighteenth-century America, roads were privately built, and the government played little role in their construction.
- Early toll roads were constructed and owned by joint-stock companies that sold stock to raise construction capital.
- Following the report, work began on a National Road to connect the west to the eastern seaboard.
- In 1815, construction on the National Road (also known as the "Cumberland Road") began in Cumberland, Maryland; by 1818, the road had reached Wheeling, West Virginia (then part of Virginia).
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- In your everyday life, you benefit from public goods such as roads and bridges even though no transaction occurs when you use them.
- In the case of roads and bridges, everyone pays taxes to the government, who then uses the taxes to pay for public goods .
- Free riders are able to use roads without paying their taxes because roads are a non-excludable public good.