CIVILIZATION
PERSIAN
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Question
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How did the Persians improve communication throughout their empire?
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They used carrier pigeons to send messages.
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They built roads and invented a postal service.
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They had fast runners relay messages over long distances.
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They made their subjects use only one common language.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The Achaemenid Persians (approx. 550-330 BCE) were able to deliver, through the use of a system of couriers on horseback (known as pirradaziš in Old Persian), messages from one end of the massive Persian Empire to the other in a matter of days.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Persian king Darius I built the so-called Royal Road, a highway over 1, 600 miles in length that stretched from Sardis in the west to Susa in the east.
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