Timeline for What was the largest empire in terms of time of communication between its two ends?
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| May 7, 2020 at 17:48 | comment | added | Spencer | I want to point out this question of @AaronBrick 's. | |
| Jul 6, 2018 at 14:48 | comment | added | Luiz | I will repeat here an anecdote from Regine Pernoud: In the XIX c, there were a riot in Iquitos (Peruvian Amazon, east of the Andes). The government needed to send a minister there, ASAP. Which was the fastest way for a single person to travel, with no regard to expenses? Taking mule trails over the Andes, under snow? Nope. The minister took a ship Lima->Panama, another ship Panama->New York, then New York->Belem (Brazil, mouth of amazon), and finally Belem->Manaus->Iquitos. It took a few months. So even small countries may have hard to reach places... | |
| Jul 31, 2015 at 20:43 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackHistory/status/627218014073696256 | ||
| Jul 29, 2015 at 20:20 | vote | accept | fbence | ||
| Jul 24, 2015 at 19:45 | answer | added | Alex | timeline score: 20 | |
| Jul 24, 2015 at 13:32 | history | edited | two sheds | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 24, 2015 at 13:28 | answer | added | two sheds | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jul 24, 2015 at 13:26 | answer | added | RI Swamp Yankee | timeline score: 12 | |
| Jul 24, 2015 at 13:20 | comment | added | T.E.D.♦ | @Semaphore - Typical method of travel in those parts probably would have been horseback, not foot, but I still think you have the right of it. | |
| Jul 24, 2015 at 13:00 | comment | added | Semaphore | I'd imagine the Mongol Empire would be the leading contender. At its peak and prior to its fracturing, Mongol rule stretched from Ukraine to Manchruia. Google Map says that walking from Kiev to Shenyang takes 1830 hours; so very roughly speaking, it'd take (a lot more, really) 230 days to traverse the empire by walking 8 hours a day. | |
| Jul 24, 2015 at 12:46 | comment | added | o0'. | I guess it would be more practical to ask the time from the capital to the farthest point, since I rather doubt the other value has been measured by anyone. | |
| Jul 24, 2015 at 12:30 | history | asked | fbence | CC BY-SA 3.0 |