CIVILIZATION
PERSIAN
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Question
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Darius the Great
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Xerxes the Great
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Cyrus the Great
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -515 BC, Darius orders his engineers to build a massive stone highway, one that would weave the empire together from North Africa to India. Extending over 1, 500 miles of the empire, he would call it the Royal Road.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -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).