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241 BC. Eureka Eureka! Stirrups...
241 BC
A new nomes establish in Astures, under Dynatoi company/federal council administration. New technologies introduced to exploit the gold mines.
The technique employed was a type of hydraulic mining which involved undermining a mountain with large quantities of water. The water was supplied by interbasin transfer. At least seven long aqueducts tapped the streams of the La Cabrera district (where the rainfall in the mountains is relatively high) at a range of altitudes. The same aqueducts were used to wash the extensive gold deposits. More than 200 gold talents were extracted each year.
εὕρηκα! εὕρηκα! / "Eureka! Eureka!"
After falling from a horse, Archimedes came up with the idea of a set of paired stirrups attached to a hard saddle.
Following the invention of paired stirrups, which allowed a rider greater leverage with weapons, as well as both increased stability and mobility while mounted, Massaliot League adopted this technology and developed a decisive military advantage…
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Greece
Magna Graecia
A new nomes establish in Astures, under Dynatoi company/federal council administration. New technologies introduced to exploit the gold mines.
The technique employed was a type of hydraulic mining which involved undermining a mountain with large quantities of water. The water was supplied by interbasin transfer. At least seven long aqueducts tapped the streams of the La Cabrera district (where the rainfall in the mountains is relatively high) at a range of altitudes. The same aqueducts were used to wash the extensive gold deposits. More than 200 gold talents were extracted each year.
εὕρηκα! εὕρηκα! / "Eureka! Eureka!"
After falling from a horse, Archimedes came up with the idea of a set of paired stirrups attached to a hard saddle.
Following the invention of paired stirrups, which allowed a rider greater leverage with weapons, as well as both increased stability and mobility while mounted, Massaliot League adopted this technology and developed a decisive military advantage…
By place
Greece
- In a major naval battle* near Crete the smaller Epirus navy won a decisive victory against Ptolemaic empire mainly due to better ship crews.
Magna Graecia
- Alexander II actions the last years were deeply unpopular within the Magna Graecia Greeks and their opinion became inflamed against him. Alexander II had so alienated the Magna Graecia Greeks, that after hearing about the war against Ptolemaic empire, they made a common cause with Syracuse and rebelled against him.
- In another naval battle Carthaginians repelled the Barcid kingdom fleet.
- Attalus I Soter succeeds his uncle, Eumenes I, to the throne of Pergamum.
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