In an era before electronic communications, news and orders had to be transmitted by boat or foot or mounted messenger. With the Empire spread over several thousand miles from Egypt/Libya to today's Pakistan, it was important to pass messages as quickly as possible so a system of horse posting stations, riverine and seagoing boats speeded up communications, reducing the time of transmission from weeks to days.
A system of roads to facilitate communications and trade.
He had everyone in the empire use the same money system of weights and measurements.
He added today's Pakistan and Thrace, and finalised the system of government by provincial governors.
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He established fleets of trading ships to supplement the slow and limited cargo transport on the road system.
A system of roads to facilitate communications and trade.
Pony express
He had everyone in the empire use the same money system of weights and measurements.
The Persian Empire had a centralized administrative system with provinces governed by satraps appointed by the king. Darius I implemented a system of satrapies with local governors responsible for tax collection and maintaining order. The king also had a council of advisors and a royal court to assist in governing the vast empire.
Neither. The system was established hundreds of years earlier by the Persian king Darius of Persia. There was no Persian Empire at the time of Alexander and later the Arabs. They had differently named empires.
The governing system of the Persian Empire, resting on traditional local government, provincial government and central imperial government.
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Darius of the Persian Empire used a bureaucratic administrative system known as the satrapy system. This system divided the empire into provinces called satrapies, each overseen by a satrap appointed by Darius to collect taxes, enforce laws, and maintain order. Darius also implemented a system of royal roads and a standardized currency to facilitate communication and trade within the empire.
Monarchy overseeing 20 provinces with Persian governors, with traditional local governments of cities, tribes and petty kingdoms.
He added today's Pakistan and Thrace, and finalised the system of government by provincial governors.
He didn't untie the Persian Empire, he took steps to tie it together, establishing Aramaic as the lingua franca and a system of 20 provincial governors to control the empire, overseen by him and his council in the capital Persepolis.
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