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284BC

With the conquest of Volcae, Massaliot League entered a golden era. They now control the important trade routes of Garonne river and together with the trade monopoly of Rhone river, Massaliot League now controls the trade of south Gaul. The trade in north west Mediterranean sea, the slave market of Massalia and the tribute of the League polis are also big contributors for the common treasury. All this made Massaliot League rich, but the silver and gold mines of Tolosa skyrocket the economy. Massalia is now, together with Carthage the biggest economic centers of west Mediterranean sea. Thanks to the efforts of both companies, Massalia now is the biggest cultural and education centre of west mediterranean world. Nobles from Rome and Magna Greacia send their sons to educate here. All this factors made Massalia to have a population boom also. Massalia have now more than one hundred thousand inhabitants and all Massaliot league more than two hundred thousands.




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Roman Republic

• The Gallic tribe called the Senones, who has settled on the Adriatic coast north of Picenum, attacks Arretium in Etruria. While attempting to relieve this allied city, the Romans under the command of Lucius Caecilius Metellus Denter suffer a costly defeat in the Battle of Arretium. Aroused by this disaster, a Roman army under Manius Curius Dentatus invades the Senones' territory, defeating them and driving them out of the Italian peninsula.

Greece

• Pyrrhus of Epirus is driven out of Macedonia and back into Epirus by Lysimachus.

Asia Minor

• Ptolemy I's eldest (legitimate) son, Ptolemy Keraunos, whose mother, Eurydice, the daughter of Antipater, had been repudiated by the new King Ptolemy II, flees Egypt to the court of Lysimachus, the king of Thrace, Macedon and Asia Minor.
• Agathocles' widow Lysandra flees with their children and with Alexander, Agathocles' brother, to the court of Seleucus, who at once invades Lysimachus' territory in Asia Minor.