WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -The Royal Road of Persia was a communications and transport road across ancient Persia. The 1500-mile (2400 km) road connected the ancient capital city of Susa to Sardis. King Darius the Great had the road built during his reign in the fifth century BCE to connect his developing empire.

Detailed explanation-2: -Persian Royal Road, also called Royal Road of Persia or Royal Road, ancient road running from Susa, the ancient capital of Persia, across Anatolia to Sardis and Smyrna on the Aegean Sea, a distance of more than 2, 400 km (1, 500 miles).

Detailed explanation-3: -The Royal Road was an ancient highway reorganized and rebuilt by the Persian king Darius the Great (Darius I) of the first (Achaemenid) Persian Empire in the 5th century BC. Darius built the road to facilitate rapid communication on the western part of his large empire from Susa to Sardis.

Detailed explanation-4: -Constructed under the command of Achaemenid King Darius I in the 5th Century BC it connected major cities from Susa, South West Iran, to Sardis, modern-day Manisa.

Detailed explanation-5: -Royal road: according to the Greek researcher Herodotus of Halicarnassus (fifth century BCE) the road that connected the capital of Lydia, Sardes, and the capitals of the Achaemenid Empire, Susa and Persepolis.