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271 BC. From a crisis to a nation.
271 BC
From a crisis to a nation
With tens of thousands Greeks settling from Magna Graecia to Massaliot league lands, a shortage in food led to an increase of the prices.Tensions arise all over Massaliot League. The extra grain imports from Alexandria and Syracuse that started in 272 BC with new bigger trade ships helped to deal with the situation. But it was Aleksagoras that gave the final solution that changed Massaliot League. Aleksagoras a statesman,inventor and mathematician from Alexandria was invited to be the new first head of the museum a couple of years ago. This food crisis helped Aleksagoras to convince the assembly, in a more central state of governance in the way’s of the Ptolemaic model. The Ptolemaic Egypt was the most efficiently organised government in the Hellenistic world. It took its national form from Egypt and Persia, its municipal form from Greece, and passed them on to the Massaliot League. Massaliot League was divided into new nomes or provinces, each administered by appointees of the federal council of the Massaliot assembly. A bureaucracy of governmental overseers established. The centralisation of economic management in the hands of the Federal council/government, made easier public works of road construction, irrigation, and building.
The ancient techniques of farming was replaced by the new breakthrough invention of water wheel machines(the Noria). Large Noria water wheel machines sometimes forty feet in diameter builded all over Massaliot League. Nearly every new settler in Massaliot League was told by the officials what soil to till and what crops to grow. An agriculture revolution started.
The Industry was re developed also. New state factories builded. Artefacts,furnitures,pottery,textile manufacturing were produced in abundance, weapon and armour manufacturing(a blend of Gaul-Greek techniques) were Massalia's specialties. The screw chain, the wheel chain, the cam chain, the ratchet chain, the pulley chain, and the screw press were all in use.
The warehouses of Massalia invited world trade, its harbor was the envy of other cities. The fields, factories, and workshops of Massaliot League supplied a great surplus within the next years, which found markets as far east as Arabia, as far south as central Africa, as far north as Baltic sea and the British Isles.
The foundation of Triandria Alliance.
An army of eight thousands under Pyrrhus son Alcyoneus is send to east Macedonia to establish authority in ex Antigonus Macedonia lands. Aetolian league pledged once again their loyalty to Pyrrhus and guards placed in Corinth, Athens, Argos and several other towns. Sparta stayed independent under Cleonymous and given the command of south Pelloponnisos and Massalia builded a stronghold/trade hub in Lakonikos gulf. Pyrrhus now controls effectively Epirus, Mainland Greece and Macedonia. A formal alliance between Pyrrhus, Massaliot League and Sparta is establish. Pyrrhus and Orestes became good friends with great respect for each other. While the were discussing a suggestion from, the eager for revenge, Pyrrhus for a possible retaliation against Rome, diplomats from the winner of the first Syrian war, and old friend of Pyrrhus, Ptolemy II arrived. They congratulated Pyrrhus and Orestes for their win and proposed a formal alliance. They also asked Pyrrhus and Orestes to help Ptolemy II with Magas rebellion in Cyrenaica, since he is still in Syria re-establishing authority after the end of first Syrian war. For helping him out besides the mutual protection pact, Ptolemy promised twenty war elephants in Pyrrhus and exclusive trade rights of the trade routes of west med with Ptolemaic Egypt for Massalia. Pyrrus gladly accepts and Orestes with Carthage in mind agreed also.
The Triandria alliance between Ptolenaic Egypt, Pyrrhus kingdom and Massaliots league was established. Sparta and Rhodes league join as lesser partners short after.
271 BC
From a crisis to a nation
With tens of thousands Greeks settling from Magna Graecia to Massaliot league lands, a shortage in food led to an increase of the prices.Tensions arise all over Massaliot League. The extra grain imports from Alexandria and Syracuse that started in 272 BC with new bigger trade ships helped to deal with the situation. But it was Aleksagoras that gave the final solution that changed Massaliot League. Aleksagoras a statesman,inventor and mathematician from Alexandria was invited to be the new first head of the museum a couple of years ago. This food crisis helped Aleksagoras to convince the assembly, in a more central state of governance in the way’s of the Ptolemaic model. The Ptolemaic Egypt was the most efficiently organised government in the Hellenistic world. It took its national form from Egypt and Persia, its municipal form from Greece, and passed them on to the Massaliot League. Massaliot League was divided into new nomes or provinces, each administered by appointees of the federal council of the Massaliot assembly. A bureaucracy of governmental overseers established. The centralisation of economic management in the hands of the Federal council/government, made easier public works of road construction, irrigation, and building.
The ancient techniques of farming was replaced by the new breakthrough invention of water wheel machines(the Noria). Large Noria water wheel machines sometimes forty feet in diameter builded all over Massaliot League. Nearly every new settler in Massaliot League was told by the officials what soil to till and what crops to grow. An agriculture revolution started.
The Industry was re developed also. New state factories builded. Artefacts,furnitures,pottery,textile manufacturing were produced in abundance, weapon and armour manufacturing(a blend of Gaul-Greek techniques) were Massalia's specialties. The screw chain, the wheel chain, the cam chain, the ratchet chain, the pulley chain, and the screw press were all in use.
The warehouses of Massalia invited world trade, its harbor was the envy of other cities. The fields, factories, and workshops of Massaliot League supplied a great surplus within the next years, which found markets as far east as Arabia, as far south as central Africa, as far north as Baltic sea and the British Isles.
The foundation of Triandria Alliance.
An army of eight thousands under Pyrrhus son Alcyoneus is send to east Macedonia to establish authority in ex Antigonus Macedonia lands. Aetolian league pledged once again their loyalty to Pyrrhus and guards placed in Corinth, Athens, Argos and several other towns. Sparta stayed independent under Cleonymous and given the command of south Pelloponnisos and Massalia builded a stronghold/trade hub in Lakonikos gulf. Pyrrhus now controls effectively Epirus, Mainland Greece and Macedonia. A formal alliance between Pyrrhus, Massaliot League and Sparta is establish. Pyrrhus and Orestes became good friends with great respect for each other. While the were discussing a suggestion from, the eager for revenge, Pyrrhus for a possible retaliation against Rome, diplomats from the winner of the first Syrian war, and old friend of Pyrrhus, Ptolemy II arrived. They congratulated Pyrrhus and Orestes for their win and proposed a formal alliance. They also asked Pyrrhus and Orestes to help Ptolemy II with Magas rebellion in Cyrenaica, since he is still in Syria re-establishing authority after the end of first Syrian war. For helping him out besides the mutual protection pact, Ptolemy promised twenty war elephants in Pyrrhus and exclusive trade rights of the trade routes of west med with Ptolemaic Egypt for Massalia. Pyrrus gladly accepts and Orestes with Carthage in mind agreed also.
The Triandria alliance between Ptolenaic Egypt, Pyrrhus kingdom and Massaliots league was established. Sparta and Rhodes league join as lesser partners short after.
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