- published: 06 Apr 2014
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The Persian Royal Road was an ancient highway reorganized and rebuilt by the Persian king Darius the Great (Darius I) of the Achaemenid Empire in the 5th century BC. Darius built the road to facilitate rapid communication throughout his very large empire from Susa to Sardis ("centralized rule is the victim of time and distance," Robin Lane Fox has observed in this context). Mounted couriers could travel 1,677 miles (2,699 km) in seven days; the journey from Susa to Sardis took ninety days on foot. The Greek historian Herodotus wrote, "There is nothing in the world that travels faster than these Persian couriers." Herodotus's praise for these messengers—"Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor darkness of night prevents these couriers from completing their designated stages with utmost speed"— was inscribed on the James Farley Post Office in New York and is sometimes thought of as the United States Postal Service creed.
The course of the road has been reconstructed from the writings of Herodotus,archeological research, and other historical records. It began in the west in Sardis (on the Aegean coast of Lydia, about 60 miles east of İzmir in present-day Turkey), traveled east through what is now the middle northern section of Turkey, (crossing the Halys according to Herodotus) and passed through the Cilician Gates to the old Assyrian capital Nineveh (present-day Mosul, Iraq), then turned south to Babylon (near present-day Baghdad, Iraq). From near Babylon, it is believed to have split into two routes, one traveling northeast then east through Ecbatana and on along the Silk Road, the other continuing east through the future Persian capital Susa (in present-day Iran) and then southeast to Persepolis. Of course, such long routes for travellers and tradesmen would often take months on end, and so during the reign of Darius the Great numerous royal outposts (Caravanserai) were built.
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Her twerk mean [twerk team/
The way she make it twerk in the mirror like a twerk feen/
Shorty musta had a twerk dream/
The way she shake that money maker in the club cause its worth green/
She do it real right, yea no lie/
Shorty so fly competition won't try/
There ain't a liquor that i won't buy/
So if i like it I'mma swipe it in a min when you walk by/
If my hands slip up and I'm grabbing your curves/
She got her words mixed up now she speakin in slurs/
Submit to the urge we could do all that/
But just give me the word i promise that ill fall back/
Or i could leave a tip to the bar/
Step over your friends then proceed to the car/
Like ride wit me we could go real far/
[Me you camera worldstarr/]
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Go girl get ya body rockin/
[Its even got the homegirl Miley poppin/
Yea she sweatin said her twerk mean like yea im bettin/
Its the way she gripped me up in such a gutter expression/
If they say sex sells well this is just a suggestion/
[That you throw me on the wall hands on the floor/
Legs in the air yea i could see it all/
Yea yea i could see it all/](1782874)
Got her hands on her draws like they ready to fall/
Then she made it dribble hand up on my whistle/
Got my eyes movin like they trynna solve a riddle/
Before we hit the middle let me play wit it first/
Its the way she make it jerk/
Yea she know how to werk/