Although his reign spans the period known as "the golden age of Latin literature", the building of roads during this period seems to indicate preoccupations with trade as well as the territorial integrity of the provinces, rather than the expansion of creative or scientific boundaries. His largest road building projects seem to be in the provinces of Spain and Asia Minor which were important sources of grain, wine, lead, and gold as well as olive oil and timber, and to whose distant territories Rome exported its culture through goods such as pottery, textiles, and coinage. ... The Greek pe...

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