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200 BC (one hundred years of this ATL! hurray! I made a map frenzy to celebrate it! Thank you all for your support,comments,criticism! They really motivated to keep going with this ATL)

With peace and stability in all her lands and new precious goods from Africa, Massaliot League entered a new golden age. The population boom due to new agricultural technics(water mills etc) and the riches in West Africa, lead to a new massive colonial wave. The three political parties/companies of the League supported numerous expeditions of new trade post/colonies in west Africa.

• After the Kola nut, the league traders discovered couple of more spices in west Africa. The alligator pepper and the grains of paradise(both are types of pepper)

• The league copied the innovate beehive and cylindrical furnaces of Taruga/Nok kingdom and started to produce better quality steel

• hydraulis becomes a trend between the rich and nobles families of the league. Protagoras(student of Diogenes of Thessaly, who introduced the hydraulic in Massalia in 222 BC) an engineer/mathematician of the museum of Massalia famous for his hydraulis, to meet with the growing demand, opens the first hydraulic factory in Massalia.

By place:

Indika

• In a new major battle, Diodotus III and Shalishuka armies killed Bindusarha and crashed Mauryan and Kalinga army. After that Diodotus III conquered Pataliputra and Shalishuka the north and west lands of the Mauryan empire and the Kalinga kingdom.

• With their powerful navy Eschatians started to raid the south indian sea.

Epirus

• In Epirus the young king Ptolemy keraunos II died mysteriously . His regent Nicomedes declared himself the new king of Epirus.

South Greece

• Sparta and Athens formed a new alliance with Sparta in Charge of the army and Athens in charge of the navy.

Ptolemaic Empire

• Although the rebellion in upper Egypt was crashed in 202 BC the situation is still not stable. For this reason Ptolemy IV invites a well know spartan general Cleombrotous with 2000 spartan mercenaries to re organise his army and deal with the issue( Cleombrotous was famous with dealings with the rebelions of the helots of Sparta).

• The first good measurement of the distance between Earth and the Sun is made by Eratosthenes. By studying lunar eclipses, his result is roughly 150 000 000 km. The currently accepted value is 149 597 870 691 ± 30 metres.

Seleucid Empire

• For prestige reasons Antiochus III decides to build a museum in his capital Seleucia. He emphasises especially to bring engineers from Massalia to update his artillery/siege engines.

Rome

• The roman consul Scipio without waiting for approval from Massaliot league, raised an army to repel a small Samnite rebellion

Bosporus kingdom.

• With the the expansion of the kingdom in the west, Bosporus traders started to trade with the Zarubintsy tribes in the upper and middle Dnieper and Pripyat Rivers.

PS: I want to make this ATL more alive by using small stories, but since i am not good at writing and my english kind of sucks... i am looking for someone that interested to participate in the writing of this ATL. Feel free to message me!











Top 10 cities

1. Alexandria 350000 pop
2. Pataliputra 350000
3. Massalia 320000
4. Syracuse 250000
5. Pratisthana 250000
6. Seleucia 240000
7. Carthage 180000
8. Antioch 170000
9. Ujjain 150000
10. Pergamon100000

Top 5 richest states

1. Diodotian Empire
2. Ptolemaic Empire
3. Massaliot League
4. Seleucids Empire
5. Samprati Empire

Estimate of the Population of this ATL

Greek peninsula 2,6 mil pop
Anatolia 7,2 mil(1,4 mil Greeks-1,2 mil hellenised local mix)
Greater Syria 4 mil(0,6 mil Greeks-1 mil hellenised local mix)
Egypt 4,5 mil(0,5+ mil Greeks 0,8 hellenised local mix)
Italy 3 mil(0,4+ mil Greeks)
Sicily 0,7 mil
Iberia 3 mil(0.4 Greeks-0,3 hellenised local mix)
North Gaul 3,2mil(0,4 hellenized Gauls)
North Balkans 2 mil
South Gaul 2,6 mil(0,8+ mil Greeks- 1,2 mil hellenised Gauls)
Persia/Bactria)central asia 25+ mil(0,5+ mil Greeks- 2.3 hellenised local mix)
India 45+ Mil( 0,1 Greeks ,0,2 hellenised Indians)
Bosporus kingdom 0,2 Greeks -0,1 hellenised local mix)