The satrapies were linked by a 2,500-kilometer highway, the most impressive stretch being the Royal Road, built by command of Darius I. Royal inspectors, the "eyes and ears of the king", toured the empire and reported on local conditions.
Rhodogune was the mother of Kind Darius of Achaemenid Empire.
The Persian Empire.
Darius II of the Persian Empire
King Darius I
He built the Royal Roads
A system of roads to facilitate communications and trade.
He built it on the base of the previous Babylonian Empire one.
The Empire was expanded by Cyrus the Great , its founder. It was further expanded into Africa by his son Cambyses, and then rounded out by Darius I. The roads were built progressively by them and their successor kings.
Because they built a garden of tower that looks like a ziggurat
Darius was king of the Persian Empire, not a god. Babylon was part of his empire.
In the fifth century BCE, the Persian king Darius I built the Royal Road to connect his massive empire.
The satrapies were linked by a 2,500-kilometer highway, the most impressive stretch being the Royal Road, built by command of Darius I. Royal inspectors, the "eyes and ears of the king", toured the empire and reported on local conditions.
The Persian Empire.
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Cyrus the Great and his successors Darius the Great and Artaxerxes.
darius used some of persian's great wealth to build roads across the empire