– How did historical leaders speak to large crowd without amplification?

Question

All I can think of is the movie Life of Brian – blessed are the cheese makers!

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Answer 1

I read a while back that when some historical figures gave speeches to large crowds there would be people placed just at the edge of the area that would clearly hear them, those people would loudly repeat what the speech maker was saying and there would be people just at the limit of where their voice would travel to who would pass it on further. So the speech would sort of travel in waves to the furthest parts of the crowd.