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The first long-distance road, which came into use around 3500 BCE, spanned 1,500 miles from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea, but was not paved and was only partially maintained. In around 2000 BCE, the Minoans on the Greek island of Crete built a fifty-kilometer (thirty-mile) road leading from the palace of Gortyn on the south side of the island, through the mountains, to the palace of Knossos on the north side of the island. Unlike the earlier road, the Minoan road was completely paved. The invention of integrated circuits and the microprocessor led to the modern computer revolution. Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. Definition And Usage Get the latest news from the Caltech website delivered to your email inbox. First of a two-part case on the development and use of a Balanced Scorecard at Mobil's US Marketing and Refining Division. This technical note considers how one makes choices in situations where there are multipl