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As early as 1000 B.C., government messengers were employed in ______.

In the thirteenth century, gives an account of how they changed horses without dismounting by leaping from saddle to ______.

Darius the Great, who ruled Persia nearly 2500 years ago, set up inns and stables along his _______.

Greeks and Romans asked _______ messengers to send messages.

The ______ race in the Olympic Games is so called because, in 490 B.C., a Greek runner carried the tidings of victory from the battle of Marathon all the way to Athens.

The remarkable ______ of the pigeon to find its way home at speed over a great distance has been known from very early times.

Pigeons were used to carry ______ in ancient China, Japan, Assyria, Persia, Egypt, Greece and Rome.

_______ was only one of many famous warriors who made use of the “pigeon post”.

During the Middle Ages, the courts throughout Europe had professional ______.

in the fourteenth century, English kings employed _____ messengers who were sent to any part of Britain and even abroad.