orders take a long time to travel so you can’t meaningfully control things that are far away
Wouldn’t that just slow down things?
Also, a counter-example: The Romans managed their empire (diameter ~4000km) quite well in that regard for a few hundred years. To get to world-scale you’d only need to speed up communication by a factor of 10.
How is Romme a counter example? They did speed up commuincation by building roads. That’s probably how they could get so big. Speeiding it up even more would have requred a shift to a diffrent thechnology, which is really hard.
Slower comnuincation is not just slower, but it also means slower reaction time, when something bad happens. Also harder to maintain loyalty.
Wouldn’t that just slow down things?
Also, a counter-example: The Romans managed their empire (diameter ~4000km) quite well in that regard for a few hundred years. To get to world-scale you’d only need to speed up communication by a factor of 10.
How is Romme a counter example? They did speed up commuincation by building roads. That’s probably how they could get so big. Speeiding it up even more would have requred a shift to a diffrent thechnology, which is really hard.
Slower comnuincation is not just slower, but it also means slower reaction time, when something bad happens. Also harder to maintain loyalty.