They oversaw collection and remission of imperial taxes, kept order, ran the imperial post service, defended against internal or external agression, and raised army and naval levies for imperial defence and war. Hope I helped ;)
A statrap was a governor of a province. His task was that of
an administrator and had a royal court. He had several responsibilities such as
collect taxes, controlled local officials and subjects, judge criminal cases,
created roads and protected the territories from bandits and other
threats. A satrap was assisted by a
council of Persians and was under the rule of a royal secretary and envoys of
the king who were the king’s eye and who conducted annual inspections and
carried out permanent control.
