In human memory, I believe that there is no account of a road as great as this, running through deep valleys, high mountains, ba
nks of snow, torrents of water, living rocks, and wild rivers . . . In all places it was clean and swept free of refuse, with lodgings, storehouses, Sun temples, and posts along the route. Oh! Can anything similar be claimed for Alexander [the Great] or any of the [other] powerful kings who ruled the world . . .? —Pedro Cieza de Léon, Spanish explorer What was significant about the roads described here?
During an uprising, they allowed ordinary people to escape rebels.
The Inca was the first civilization to construct and use them.
They allowed armies and news to move rapidly throughout the empire.
All roads led through Tenochtitlán, the Inca capital.
The significant thing about the road described above was that it allowed armies and news to move rapidly throughout the empire. There were lodgings for the armies, and storehouses to take care of their needs while the posts made information dissemination easier to accomplish.
The Domino effect is the theory that when one country falls to communism then more will soon follow, one by one. This is what got us into the Cold War and all conflicts surrounding it, including the Korean and Vietnam War.
The expansion plans of the Soviets led initially to the Containment policy of the early Cold War. The United States established the Containment policy which is primary to prevent the spread of the Communism period.
