Most travel on some kind of road everyday, but how did they get there? Here's the long and winding history of roads and highways from Mesopotamia to modern day.
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Persis, ancient country in the southwestern part of Iran, roughly coextensive with the modern region of Fārs. Its name was derived from the Iranian tribe of the Parsua (Parsuash; Parsumash; Persians), who settled there in the 7th century bc. Herodotus lists the leading Persian tribes as the