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The lot of you are probably getting annoyed by my need to look for obscure PODs but this one is really interesting and I need it to have it mentioned. Isidore or as he was known in Roman-Egyptian society as Isidorus, was a native Egyptian priest in the second century AD. He led a major native Egyptian uprising against the Romans during Marcus Aurelius' reign. According to the historian Dio Cassius, he led the Egyptians in the Bucolic War, which broke out in the years 172 or 173 as a result of heavy taxation imposed in the Boucolia marshes of the Nile Delta. Get this, the Egyptians were pretty successful at first, defeating the Romans in pitched battle and afterwards, almost took Alexandria, had Avidius Cassius, governor of Syria, arrived to put down the rebellion. It took a long time for Cassius to put down the uprising by waiting for the rebels to splinter into rival factions.

The rebellions messed up Egypt's economy and left it in a state of decline. What if Cassius' arrival is delayed? Could Isidorus' forces capture Alexandria?
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