MEDIEAVAL ROADS

The text below is the lesson of the Course of History the SANTOS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY, COURSE OF HISTORY - (Scribe Valdemir Mota de Menezes)


The medieval roads, even those of Roman origin, declined greatly, because the toll it before serving to finance maintenance of roads was used by feudal lords to their advantage as a source of income. So the sea and the rivers themselves were often used for trade, while river transport subject to stay dry in summer and frost in winter and floods. Before the discovery of America, contact the East was the main source of goods.