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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GameDaddy" data-source="post: 8075598" data-attributes="member: 80711">The Old Roads in Eastern EuropeUnknown to the Romans, but known to the Britons, Germans, Celts, and Gauls were the old Neolithic roads from the time right after the Ice age. It was these roads that allowed the German tribes to move enmasse and invade other countries, There were a number of ancient minor roads some of which I’ll mention here, but the two major ones, was the North/South road, the via Imperii or Imperial Road, and the east west road, the Via Regia, the Road of Kings.The Via Imperii was so named, after the Imperial Romans. From Rome, the road stretched North to what is now Nurnberg, and the Romans built the road to Augsburg at least, and perhaps to Nurnburg as well. The rest of the road was built over old German trade roads. The via Imperii road began in the North at Stettin which is on the Baltic Coast, and was a collection point for Amber as well as Chert and Flint from Northern Germany which was used in the Stone Age to make tools and weapons. Anyway the road was a stone age trade path, that was expanded and grew. It was first written about in the eleventh century, but that was about the time Northern Germany first had writing on a large scale with the churches of the nascent Holy Roman Empire. It wasn’t that the roads didn’t exist before then, it was only then, that people wrote about the roads and included the roads in books, passing that knowledge on of the trade routes.Now the Via Rex, The Road of Kings began in Moscow and Kiev, and traveled west through Germany and France and into Spain and all the way to the Atlantic Coast. It was the trade route of the Gauls and Celts, and the German tribes, as well the Rus, the Slavs, the Tatars, the Avars, and the Belarus. This road was used by the Mongols and the Huns when they invaded Western Europe . In the time of Varus, Arminius the German commander sent messengers to the east along this road and the other old roads calling for recruits to fight the Romans, and the Marcomani sent warriors as well as the Semnones, which were about 400 Km away, and while the Romans of Varus' Legions spent the summer in German Territory “dispensing justice” as legates, the Germans secretly gathered a large army and set a trap for the Romans.All the tribal chiefs and ancient kings knew of this ancient trade route, that is why it was called the Road of Kings, The Romans never knew about it though until after the fall of the Roman empire, because they presumed the Celts, Gauls, Britons, and Germans were barbarians and uncivilized. Never occurred to the Romans that the Barbarians might have a functioning road network.</blockquote>

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