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248 BC. Citizenship to Gauls.
248 BC
A number of political proposals had attempted to address the growing discrepancy whereby Hellenised Gauls made a significant contribution to Massaliot League military force, while receiving disproportionately small shares of land and citizenship rights. These efforts came to a head under epicurean stratigos/episcopos Nestor. His reforms granted the Hellenised Gauls, who will serve the military, full citizenship giving them a greater say in the external policy of the Massaliot League( for example, when the league would go to war or how they would divide the plunder). The Massaliot League federal council at first was divided with Palaioi company/party opposite and Dynatoi company/party in favour. In the end, elder Andronikos(an influential council member of Palaoi) mysterious death together with pressure from the Epicurean sect, helped the proposal to pass.
The granting of citizenship to the Hellenised Gauls and the conquered was a vital step in the process of a new identity for the Massaliot League. This step was one of the most effective political tools and political ideas in the history of Massaliot league. Previously Alexander the Great had tried to "mingle" his Greeks with the Persians, Egyptians, Syrians, etc. in order to assimilate the people of the conquered Persian Empire, but after his death this policy was largely ignored by his successors. The idea was to assimilate, to turn a defeated and potentially rebellious enemy (or his sons) into a Hellenised Massaliot League citizen. Instead of having to wait for the unavoidable revolt of a conquered people (a tribe or a city-state) like Sparta and the conquered Helots, Massalia tried to make those under its rule feel that they had a stake in the system.
A number of political proposals had attempted to address the growing discrepancy whereby Hellenised Gauls made a significant contribution to Massaliot League military force, while receiving disproportionately small shares of land and citizenship rights. These efforts came to a head under epicurean stratigos/episcopos Nestor. His reforms granted the Hellenised Gauls, who will serve the military, full citizenship giving them a greater say in the external policy of the Massaliot League( for example, when the league would go to war or how they would divide the plunder). The Massaliot League federal council at first was divided with Palaioi company/party opposite and Dynatoi company/party in favour. In the end, elder Andronikos(an influential council member of Palaoi) mysterious death together with pressure from the Epicurean sect, helped the proposal to pass.
The granting of citizenship to the Hellenised Gauls and the conquered was a vital step in the process of a new identity for the Massaliot League. This step was one of the most effective political tools and political ideas in the history of Massaliot league. Previously Alexander the Great had tried to "mingle" his Greeks with the Persians, Egyptians, Syrians, etc. in order to assimilate the people of the conquered Persian Empire, but after his death this policy was largely ignored by his successors. The idea was to assimilate, to turn a defeated and potentially rebellious enemy (or his sons) into a Hellenised Massaliot League citizen. Instead of having to wait for the unavoidable revolt of a conquered people (a tribe or a city-state) like Sparta and the conquered Helots, Massalia tried to make those under its rule feel that they had a stake in the system.
- New road connects Atalanti with Tolosa/Massalia and Naucratia.
- A new “civil war” started between Carthage and Barcid Kingdom.
- Antiochus II raises a new army to reconquer Greco-Bactrian Kngdom.
- tensions broke up between new Spartan settlers and local population.
- Sersor
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