ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Evolution of motorway construction in European nations

Okay, so imagine you want to go on a trip in a car from one city to another. You will need a road (called a motorway) to drive on. Back in the olden days, people would make roads by using tools like shovels and horses to move dirt and stones. This was a lot of work and the roads weren't very good.

As time went on, people invented machines to help build roads faster and better. This helped make motorways much smoother and easier to drive on. In Europe, different countries used different ways to build their motorways.

Some countries, like Germany, were very good at planning and building motorways. They made the roads very wide and flat, so it was easy for lots of cars to drive on them at the same time.

Other countries, like Italy, had a harder time building motorways. They had rougher terrain and needed to build lots of tunnels and bridges to get the road through the mountains.

Overall, Europe has lots of different kinds of motorways because every country has its own way of building them. But no matter how they were built, they all help people get where they need to go faster and easier.