Question: At Pérignat there are still found remains of a Roman road and a necropolis with a sarcophagus and ceramic dated to the second century, Roman roads were physical infrastructure vital to the maintenance and development of the Roman state, and were built from about which year, through the expansion and consolidation of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire?
Sentence (from "History of the Roman Empire"): Rome had begun expanding shortly after the founding of the Republic in the 6th century BC, though it did not expand outside of the Italian Peninsula until the 3rd century BC.
Relevant evidence: No