Agricola's Folly- The Tale of a Roman Ireland

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Will Hibernia manage to establish a area of influence either cultural or military in Britain or Wales?
Some Trading posts maybe.
 
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The Long Third Century: Part II

Part II: The Way We Used To Do It

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205-215

  • Ruso continued reconstruction at a faster pace, as the richs of northern Mesopotamia and increased sea trade with India using the puppet state in southern Mesopotamia helps fill the Imperial coffers
  • The Via Ruso is built from Rome north to Northern Gaul and Germany, part of an effort to keep the North more closely associated to the rest of the Empire, incase of an emergency like the Verian Plague
  • Agricultural production across the western part of the Empire takes a turn for the better. The standard of living west of Italy becomes higher than the Greek east for a period of ten years because of bumper crop after bumper crop.
  • Northern Mesopotamia is renamed Assyria and becomes a Roman province, under full control of the Emperor, at least temporarily.
  • Ruso dies in 213, is replaced by the Governor of Africa, Publius Septimius Geta, son of war hero Lucius Septimius Severus. He is generally known as Geta. Ruso is viewed on as a mediocre Emperor who could have handled the Parthian War better, but did push the Empire through a massive period of prosperity after the war.
  • Geta is a conservative who thinks current spending is out of control and unattainable. He begins to replace several Popularis Senators and Governors.

215-225

  • Romanization is at its peak across the Empire. Hellenistic ideas are shunned by the frugal Geta and he passes a law not allowing making Greek officials in Assyria, Syria, Judaea and Egypt.
  • This act stirres up some controversy, especially among the ethnically Greek commander of the Legion III Cyrenaica, Alexander. Alexander wants to create a seperate Greek empire in the East, or just simple go to Rome and usurp Geta.
  • Hearing of Alexander's plan, Geta repeals the law, but the process of Romanization is set.
  • There is a small legionary revolt in Hibernia, because of the unpopular Optimate Governor of the province. Geta, beginning to moderate now from his early years, replaces him with a Popularis.
  • Geta is afraid of popular revolt in Rome, from the change from a robust welfare state under Ruso to strict cuts under Geta. He begins to appoint more Populares to the Senate.
  • The former Governor of Lusitania, Marcus Cornelius Flaccus, is appointed to the Senate. Cornelius is afraid that Geta will go to far in his reforms, and advises him as such. He is the last Optimate appointed by Geta, but still causes problems on the Senate floor.
  • Working with Alexander, who is still not fond of Geta, Cornelius works to get allies in the legions for a new scheme to overthrow Geta.
  • Cornelius gains allies in the Praetorian Guard, but the Western legions are still not fond of him. Geta sees Cornelius talking to Praetorians, tells Western Legions to "remain alert"

225-235

  • In January of 225, Geta's reign is cut short. He is assassinated by his Praetorian Guard as Cornelius takes control. Geta is considered a Popularis martyr, and will eventually be venerated as the Divine Geta
  • Cornelius begins by cutting the budget almost down to nothing and reinstating full imperial control in several provinces. He uses manpower from Alexander and the Eastern Legions to keep down revolts.
 
Abhakhazia

Abhakhazia

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I have to make a few maps for the next update, so I can't do it tonight. Expect update tomorrow, just concluding Part II of the Long Third Century. The Long Third Century will be finished up on Tuesday or Wednesday. No update Thursday. Friday, expect a Hibernia-centric narrative on the beginning of the Age of Reform. Saturday or Sunday, expect a history book style update detailing events in the Empire.
 

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I have to make a few maps for the next update, so I can't do it tonight. Expect update tomorrow, just concluding Part II of the Long Third Century. The Long Third Century will be finished up on Tuesday or Wednesday. No update Thursday. Friday, expect a Hibernia-centric narrative on the beginning of the Age of Reform. Saturday or Sunday, expect a history book style update detailing events in the Empire.
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Abhakhazia

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Part II: The Way We Used To Do It

----------​

205-215

  • Ruso continued reconstruction at a faster pace, as the richs of northern Mesopotamia and increased sea trade with India using the puppet state in southern Mesopotamia helps fill the Imperial coffers
  • The Via Ruso is built from Rome north to Northern Gaul and Germany, part of an effort to keep the North more closely associated to the rest of the Empire, incase of an emergency like the Verian Plague
  • Agricultural production across the western part of the Empire takes a turn for the better. The standard of living west of Italy becomes higher than the Greek east for a period of ten years because of bumper crop after bumper crop.
  • Northern Mesopotamia is renamed Assyria and becomes a Roman province, under full control of the Emperor, at least temporarily.
  • Ruso dies in 213, is replaced by the Governor of Africa, Publius Septimius Geta, son of war hero Lucius Septimius Severus. He is generally known as Geta. Ruso is viewed on as a mediocre Emperor who could have handled the Parthian War better, but did push the Empire through a massive period of prosperity after the war.
  • Geta is a conservative who thinks current spending is out of control and unattainable. He begins to replace several Popularis Senators and Governors.

215-225

  • Romanization is at its peak across the Empire. Hellenistic ideas are shunned by the frugal Geta and he passes a law not allowing making Greek officials in Assyria, Syria, Judaea and Egypt.
  • This act stirres up some controversy, especially among the ethnically Greek commander of the Legion III Cyrenaica, Alexander. Alexander wants to create a seperate Greek empire in the East, or just simple go to Rome and usurp Geta.
  • Hearing of Alexander's plan, Geta repeals the law, but the process of Romanization is set.
  • There is a small legionary revolt in Hibernia, because of the unpopular Optimate Governor of the province. Geta, beginning to moderate now from his early years, replaces him with a Popularis.
  • Geta is afraid of popular revolt in Rome, from the change from a robust welfare state under Ruso to strict cuts under Geta. He begins to appoint more Populares to the Senate.
  • The former Governor of Lusitania, Marcus Cornelius Flaccus, is appointed to the Senate. Cornelius is afraid that Geta will go to far in his reforms, and advises him as such. He is the last Optimate appointed by Geta, but still causes problems on the Senate floor.
  • Working with Alexander, who is still not fond of Geta, Cornelius works to get allies in the legions for a new scheme to overthrow Geta.
  • Cornelius gains allies in the Praetorian Guard, but the Western legions are still not fond of him. Geta sees Cornelius talking to Praetorians, tells Western Legions to "remain alert"

225-235

  • In January of 225, Geta's reign is cut short. He is assassinated by his Praetorian Guard as Cornelius takes control. Geta is considered a Popularis martyr, and will eventually be venerated as the Divine Geta
  • Cornelius begins by cutting the budget almost down to nothing and reinstating full imperial control in several provinces. He uses manpower from Alexander and the Eastern Legions to keep down revolts.
  • With Cornelius safely installed as Emperor, he feels less tied to Alexander's eastern support and continues Geta's process of Romanization.
  • By December of 229, with Cornelius's budget cuts angering the masses, the Senate recently purged of Principates by the Praetorians (expanded so that they essentially become Cornelius's own tyrannical army), and Alexander angry war is brewing on the horizon and everyone knows it.
  • War comes in August of 230 when a Praetorian detachment in Corinth, again remember that the Praetorians are much larger than they were in 225 because of Cornelius expanding them, kills six Greek officials for "questionable loyalty". Alexander takes action and marches his troops north into Judaea, destroying any loyalist forces in the region. Once he rounded the bend of Syria into the Anatolian peninsula he faced provinces loyal to him in the Greek regions of the Empire. Alexander sails to Athens and establishes his own Greek Empire
  • Once the news reaches Italian ports, Rome blows up in flames and riots. Most call for Cornelius to be deposed, some call for all provinces, not just the Eastern ones to declare for Alexander, others call for a popular Senator from Syria, escaping from the purges in Gaul named Philippus[1] to be declared the new Emperor.
  • Philippus declares himself Emperor in Narbo. The War of the Three Emperors begins. The Brittanic and Hispanic legions rush to Philippus's aid. The German legions however, remain neutral.
  • Cornelius is flees to Ravenna to escape the mobs in Rome. Hearing this, Alexander creates a fleet at Dyrrachium to cross over the Adratic to attack Cornelius at his own base.
  • In 235, the African provinces declare for Philippus, hearing that Italy is the only holdout for Cornelius, the German legions declare for Philippus. The Legions march into Italy, distracting Cornelius's army

235-245

  • Alexander's fleet sails from Dyrrachium and lands in Ravenna completely surprising Cornelius. He tries to flee, but Alexander captures him and has him crucified. To this day, Cornelius is known as the "Crosshanger Emperor" because of his death.
  • Alexander's army and fleet haphazardy take Italy's Adriatic shore, Philippus takes Rome and marches south, taking Sicily and everything west of the Appenines. The Appenines become and uneasy border between the two emperors.
  • Philippus plans a full-on assault of Alexander's forces in the Po Valley, but his legion commanders are too afraid of Alexander, hearing what he did to Cornelius's forxes in Ravenna. In the meantime, Alexander establishes an Italian base at Brindisium, in Italy's south.
  • Philippus takes one of his legions and sails it to Cyrene personally. He sweeps across Egypt and Syria, where he is popular and faces little resistance. Alexander is flustered, and doesn't want to lose his land in the East or his position in Italy. He leaves himself for Athens.
  • Seizing the opportunity the commander of the XX Valeria Victrix invades the Po Valley, smashing Alexander's forces from behind. He quickly loses his position in Italy.
  • As armies approach him from both East and West, Alexander digs in Achaea, afraid of a bloody siege of Athens, he quickly runs away to somewhere in rural southern Greece. His armies surrender at the port of Piraeus when Philippus lands his fleet there.
  • Finally, Philippus can declare himself Emperor in Rome without challenge. Strangely enough, despite plenty of imperial gold going into the coffers of bountyhunters, Alexander is never found. He completely disappears. Rumor is he held out in Southern Greece and became an olive farmer, or escaped to China or India.
  • Cornelius and Alexander are known as two of the worse Emperors, compared to Philippus especially, who ushered in a new era, the final of the Long Third Century.

[1] If you haven't guessed, Philippus is Philip the Arab.
 
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