Maybe a weird/stupid question. Today we have mass media, and any new law/political scandal that happens reaches almost everyone instantly. Previously, radio broadcasts. Before telecommunications, information could go around presumably by letters, word of mouth, etc. Before even any of that, how would entire populations in, for example, the 11th century find out about new laws that were passed in their country, or if their country was going to war, and was it ever possible to communicate this fairly quickly (that is, within a week or two?)
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Thanks all for the interesting responses! I expected, in part, to hear about people delivering messages by horse, but had forgotten about town criers and didn’t expect the “they didn’t give a shit”, which made me laugh. Thanks for all the high quality answers folks 🙂
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