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Pretty old thread, but I thought I'd comment. The supposed fact that the ruts in roads were caused by "Roman war chariots" is, in actuality, not a fact, but instead, bullshit. By the time Rome had become an Imperial power, chariots as war machines had been obsolete for centuries. The only purpose a chariot would have served in Imperial Rome would be ceremonial. A better answer would be that those ruts were caused by wagons, because yes, the ancients had wagons just like less ancient people did, and used them for many things, including trade and supplying armies and so on.
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