Empire Builders: The Rise and Fall of Civilizations

012 - The Persian Royal Road: Logistics as Statecraft

·8 min

This episode explores how the Persian Royal Road, a 1,500-mile ancient infrastructure network, served as a revolutionary tool of statecraft and control for the Achaemenid Empire.

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