Viva la Assyria!

What plausible POD would make Assyria last longer and become the equivalent of OTL Roman Empire in size and cultural significance.
 
Make them better administrators (much like the Persians). I figure that's your best chance. The Assyrians were competent militarily, but if provincial administration could be improved (such as not relocating minor populations), they could turn into a major power that could withstand the Persian hordes.
 
Also develop a better mechanism for integrating the most able of their subject peoples into their structures. For example, Rome allowed people to become citizens of the Republic directly.

Further, they would have to tone down their sheer nastiness, skinning people alive may make a subject people fear you, but when the top blows off the pot, the whole thing is certain to go.
 
Ace Venom said:
Make them better administrators (much like the Persians). I figure that's your best chance. The Assyrians were competent militarily, but if provincial administration could be improved (such as not relocating minor populations), they could turn into a major power that could withstand the Persian hordes.

I disagree with your statement about not deporting populations. The deportation policy was a sound one from an imperial standpoint, for it broke up national identities (which was the source of local rebellions) and tended to create one homogenous population, loyal to the Empire rather than to local kings. The problems the Assyrians had came about because they did not universally apply the policy of deportation. In the areas where it was applied, the local populations became very docile and easy to administer because national identities were broken. It was Babylonia, where this was never done, which eventually rose up and (in alliance with the Medes and Scythians) destroyed Assyria. If they deported the Babylonian population, dispersed it to different regions of the empire, and replaced it with a mixed population from other areas, as they did in Israel, Babylonia would never have become a threat, and I think Assyria could have withstood the Medes and the Scythians.
 
I think that The Assyrians tried tor regain power in The Mid East, around 350 B.C. Sombody could make an POD out of that.
 
Norman raised an excellant point there. I once read that the Assyrian Empire in its history celebrated victories constantly, as constant victory was the only manner of surviving. NO ONE liked them, and the habit of oppressing and/or destroying the conquered and tributaries guaranteed that they would be outclassed by a larger and more compassionate empire.

However, it is also true that the Assyrians had TWO periods of expansion. Perhaps if we could determine a manner by which they change behavior after the first period ended? If some ally or tributary remained loyal and saved them from some disaster, thereby causing a re-evaluation of the how they treated such neighbors?
 
robertp6165 said:
I disagree with your statement about not deporting populations. The deportation policy was a sound one from an imperial standpoint, for it broke up national identities (which was the source of local rebellions) and tended to create one homogenous population, loyal to the Empire rather than to local kings. The problems the Assyrians had came about because they did not universally apply the policy of deportation. In the areas where it was applied, the local populations became very docile and easy to administer because national identities were broken. It was Babylonia, where this was never done, which eventually rose up and (in alliance with the Medes and Scythians) destroyed Assyria. If they deported the Babylonian population, dispersed it to different regions of the empire, and replaced it with a mixed population from other areas, as they did in Israel, Babylonia would never have become a threat, and I think Assyria could have withstood the Medes and the Scythians.

Intersting, So If the Medes and Scythians had been Deported...what type of Strong Cultural Identity and Miltarily Assyrian Empire Might Arise? Would they Deport the tribes of Judah and the Egyptians if they had gone so far? What would the world be like with out an Yawehisim at all(Christianity and Islam defiantley don't Arise in this TL). What would be the Domiant Religon, and how would Assyria deal with the incoming world powers of Greece, Carthage and the Etruscans?
 
Judaism would still survive; it did survive the Babylonian Captivity in our time (which is exactly the practice mentioned above). It would probably move more swiftly towards the rabbinical, community-based practices found post-Diaspora.
 

Faeelin

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Grimm Reaper said:
Norman raised an excellant point there. I once read that the Assyrian Empire in its history celebrated victories constantly, as constant victory was the only manner of surviving. NO ONE liked them, and the habit of oppressing and/or destroying the conquered and tributaries guaranteed that they would be outclassed by a larger and more compassionate empire.

A vicious empire that's survival necessitated constant expansions?

Why does that sound familiar to the SPQR?
 

Leo Caesius

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An interesting thing I learned about the Talmud recently while reading one of Jacob Neusner's 500+ books; the Bavli (the standard recension of the Talmud used today) had its genesis in the Mesopotamian community (hence the name) when Rabbis from Palestine left in 138 CE following the Bar Kokhba revolts. One of the major reasons for the shift to the community-based practices (as opposed to traditional Judaism which was focused upon the Temple) was, of course, the destruction of the Temple in 70 CE. Prior to that, the division between Jews in the East and Jews in the West (and Egypt) was already well defined, but it wasn't until 138 that the intellectual center of Judaism shifted to Makhoze and Pumbeditha and the rest.

It strikes me that, when dealing with the deportations, the Assyrians focused largely on deporting the upper classes - the aristocracy - and left the other strata of society intact. IIRC, archaeologists examining the period of the Exile have found that there's comparatively little evidence for large scale deportations. Destruction levels aplenty, for sure, but in many cases the local economies continued after the destruction within a relatively short period of time.

One of the problems with deporting the Babylonians is the fact that the Assyrians looked to the Babylonians to legitimize their own regime, and the fact that the city of Babylon itself was an economic powerhouse for the whole Mesopotamian region, just as the Phoenician city-states were for the Levant. The Assyrians couldn't afford to deport these groups because it would cripple their empire; they could, on the other hand, afford to deport the aristocracy of the Northern Kingdom.
 
There's a lot of debate regarding the thoroughness of the Babylonian Captivity; some suggest that the Samaritans were native Jews of the lower classes left behind, though DNA evidence indicates that maternally they are non-Jewish. While it's true that community-based practices arose in the Diaspora due to the destruction of the Second Temple, it seems fairly consistent that, should the Second Temple never be built, that the destruction of Solomon's Temple would provide sufficient catalyst.
 
Forum Lurker said:
Judaism would still survive; it did survive the Babylonian Captivity in our time (which is exactly the practice mentioned above). It would probably move more swiftly towards the rabbinical, community-based practices found post-Diaspora.

Judaism only survived in OTL because the Babylonians followed a different type of deportation policy from that followed by the Assyrians. The Assyrians took people away and dispersed them in small groups throughout their empire. These small groups were unable to maintain their cultural identity, and that would seem to be the main reason why the "Ten Lost Tribes" were "lost." The Babylonians, by contrast, basically settled all the deportees as one community in Babylon itself. As a result, the Jews were able to maintain their religion and culture, just in a different land. Kind of like the "Little Saigons" and "Chinatowns" that exist in some American cities today.
 

Darkest

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Hey, this is very interesting, keep this up.

Why? In the Shared Worlds forum, our new shared world Alterverse uses a world where the Assyrian Empire became the leading superpower by the second millenium.

If anyone could look at our information on the Assyrian Empire in the Shared Worlds forum and then create a timeline for their plane, we would be very grateful. Thanks. Otherwise, I'll try to borrow ideas from this thread to create a timeline.

Very cool stuff, keep it up.
- Darkest90
 
Darkest90 said:
Why? In the Shared Worlds forum, our new shared world Alterverse uses a world where the Assyrian Empire became the leading superpower by the second millenium.

If anyone could look at our information on the Assyrian Empire in the Shared Worlds forum and then create a timeline for their plane, we would be very grateful. Thanks. Otherwise, I'll try to borrow ideas from this thread to create a timeline.
Cheapskate.
 
But What is the Political Structure of the Assyrian Empire with the Jews, Medes, and Babylonians deported? Would they follow an Pattern similar to OTL Persians or Parthians? What Nation could possible be and Great Formidable enemy against the Assyrian Machine?
 
Here is an Scenario I came up with, Can annyone inform if it's Plausible or not.



354-350 BCE: For more than 250 years, The Assyrian Population had remained under the Yokes of the Babylonian and Persian Empires. The Weakned State of the Persian Empire provides an window of Oppurtunity for Various squabbaling Assyrian Aristorcrats. Rumi-Ubalit of Assur is able to Organize the Revolt and unites the other Assyrian Citites under his rule. He sends Ambassadors to Pharaoh Nectanebo I over Egypt and the various Samaratian Tribes of the North. He even sends envoys to the court of Phillip II of Macedon, and reformats the Native Assyrian Forces around the new Macedonian Phalanx. He also adds the Assyrian Heavy Chariots and their superior Siege Technology to the Military creating an rather formidable force. The Assyrian Army meets with Egyptians at Megiddo and Severly defeat's Artaxerxes in battle in 653 BCE. The Samartians begin an series of Invasions from the Northern effectivley splitting the Perisan Army. After getting bogged down in Palestine for Two Years, in 352 BCE, At the battle of Sidion the scales or Tiped, and once again Rumi-Ubalit I is able to move swiftly westward and easily sacks the cities of Cunaxa and Babylon. Not Risking another revolt, Rumi-Ubalit has the Babylonian population Deported breaking up it's national Identiy. Finally inside the gates of Persopolis, King Artaxerxerxes III is forced to recognize the Independence of Assyria and Egypt. Assyria gains Cicillia, Babylonia and the Phoenician colonies along the Leabonese coast. Egypt gains Palestine and Persia remains in an exhausted state untill the eventual fall of the empire in 333 BCE.
 
Well, the use of heavy chariots is rather contra-indicated in this period; cavalry like the Macedonian Companions outperform them in every particular. Otherwise, it's at least somewhat plausible; certainly Persia was wracked by revolts enough. It's simply a question of whether Alexander has a reason not to conquer Assyria and Egypt as he did in OTL; if he doesn't, this doesn't actually create a lasting departure.
 
THE THIRD ASSYRIAN EMPIRE: Part One...626-300 BCE.



626-609 BCE: Fall of the Second Assyrian Empire, Naboplasser of Babylon asserts his Independce in The Assyrian Empire and allies himself with the Medes attack the great Imperial city of Nineveh. A series of Invasions occuring over almost Two Decades ravages the Assyrian Empire. In 614 BCE, The old Assyrian Capital of Asshur fall to the Medes. Finally in 612 BC, The Assyrian Empire collapses with the fall of Kalakh and Ninevah. Media and Babylonia divide the spoils. Sin-shur-ishkun dies in his burning palace. The commander of the Assyrian western army,Ashur-uballit II based in Harran, claims the crown and names himself after the founder of the empire. Although not Destroyed, The city of Haran is conquered by the Babylonians and Ashur-uballit II himself is killed in 609 BCE, The Fall of the Assyrian Empire and the Rise of the Babylonians.

559-530 BCE: Reign of Kurush II of Anshan(Cyrus the Great of Persia). Harpagus(an friend of the Perisan Prince) seeking vengeance, convinced Cyrus to rally the Persian people, who were then in a state of near-slavery beneath the Medes, to revolt c. 554 BCE/ 553 BCE and by 550 BCE/ 549 BCE. With the help of Harpagus, Cyrus led the Persians, as well as his armies, to the capture of Ecbatana, and effectively conquered Media. He at first seems to have accepted the crown of Media but by 546 BCe had officially assumed the title of "king of Persia,". Thus the Persians gained dominion over the Iranian plateau. But Cyrus' wars had just begun. Astyages had been in alliancewith his brother-in-law Croesus of Lydia , Nabonidus of Babylonand Amasis II of Egypt. They reportedly intended to unite their armies against Cyrus and his Persians. But before the allies could unite Cyrus had defeated Croesus at Pterium, occupied Sardis, overthrown the Lydian kingdom, and taken Croesus prisoner (546 BCE. According to Herodotus, Cyrus spared the life of King Croesus and kept him as an advisor throughout his life. In 538 Cyrus defeated Nabonidus at Opis and occupied Babylon. According to the Babylonian inscription this was in all probability a bloodless victory. Cyrus assumed the title of 'king of Babylon, king of Sumer and Akad, king of the four sides of the world'.

480 BCE: Invasion of Greece by the forces of King Xerxes of Persia. The 'Spartan Last
Stand' occurs under Leonidas at Thermopylae. The Spartans are eventually defeated after
being betrayed by a traitor, Ephialtes. Later that year, the Greek forces under the general
Themistocles defeat the Persian navy under King Xerxes at the battle of Salamis.
Meanwhile, Carthage allies with Persia against the Greeks, but meets defeat in Sicily at
the Battle of Himera.

380 BCE: Nectanebo I deposes Pharaoh Nefaarud II over Egypt, and establishes the 30th Dynasty of Egypt.

359 BCE: The minor Amyntas IV succeeds his father Perdiccas as king of Macedonia. His uncle Philip II is appointed as his regent, but eventually establishes himself as king.Phillip replaces the old Greek-style hoplite phalanx with a new formation, the Macedonian Phalanx. Phillip's Macedonian Phalangites are professional soldiers, and are among the first troops ever to be drilled, thereby allowing them to execute complex maneuvers well beyond the reach of
most other armies. They fight packed in a close rectangular formation, typically eight
men deep, with a leader at the head of each column and a secondary leader in the middle,
so that the back rows can move off to the sides if more frontage is needed. Unlike earlier
hoplites, phalangites are mostly unarmored except possibly those of the first row, and
carried only small shields. No enemies are expected to get close enough for them to need
any armor, however, since each phalangite carries as his primary weapon a sarissa, a
double-pointed pike over four metres in length. At close range such large weapons are
useless, but an intact phalanx can easily keep its enemies at a distance; the weapons of the
first five rows of men all project beyond the front of the formation, so that there are more
spearpoints than available targets at any given time. Phillip doesn't use the Phalanx as
his primary striking force. Instead, the Phalanx is used to hold the enemy in place for a
decisive charge by the cavalry. Also in this year King Artaxerxes II Mnemon of the Persian Empire dies, he is succeeded by his son who takes to the throne as Artaxerxes III Ochus

354-350 BCE: For more than 250 years, The Assyrian Population had remained under the Yokes of the Babylonian and Persian Empires. The Weakned State of the Persian Empire provides an window of Oppurtunity for Various squabbaling Assyrian Aristorcrats. Rumi-Ubalit of Assur is able to Organize the Revolt and unites the other Assyrian Citites under his rule. He sends Ambassadors to Pharaoh Nectanebo I over Egypt and the various Samaratian Tribes of the North. He even sends envoys to the court of Phillip II of Macedon, and reformats the Native Assyrian Forces around the new Macedonian Phalanx. He also adds the Assyrian Heavy Chariots and their superior Siege Technology to the Military creating an rather formidable force. The Assyrian Army meets with Egyptians at Megiddo and Severly defeat's Artaxerxes in battle in 653 BCE. The Samartians begin an series of Invasions from the Northern effectivley splitting the Perisan Empire. After getting bogged down in Palestine for Two Years, in 352 BCE, At the battle of Sidion the scales or Tiped, and once again Rumi-Ubalit I is able to move swiftly westward and easily sacks the cities of Cunaxa and Babylon. Not Risking another revolt, Rumi-Ubalit has the Babylonian population Deported breaking up it's national Identiy. Finally inside the gates of Persopolis, King Artaxerxerxes III is forced to recognize the Independence of Assyria and Egypt. Assyria gains Cicillia, Babylonia and the Phoenician colonies along the Leabonese coast. Egypt gains Palestine and Persia remains in an exhausted state untill the eventual fall of the empire in 333 BCE.

352 and Onward BCE: In the aftermath of the successful Assyrian rebellion which ended Persian rule, Indiaonce again fragments into several kingdoms, of which Magadha (ruled by the descendants of Darshaka) is the most powerful.

352 and Onward BCE: In the newly independent Indian states, Hinduism has taken on a very
intolerant, puritanical world-view, and followers of beliefs considered “heretical” are
persecuted. Especially hard hit is greatly is Jainism, which had begun about 600 BC as a
dissident sect of Hinduism. Indeed, persecutions of this faith will be so severe that by the
end of the century, it will be totally eradicated. Another faith which suffers greatly is the
relatively new faith of Buddhism, which is nearly wiped out in bloody persecutions
carried out over the next century, but manages to survive by the barest of margins.

351 BC: Beginning of the forty years truce between Rome and the Etruscan city of
Tarquinia.

c. 350 BCE: By this date, Carthage has established itself as the leading power in the West.
Also at around this time in China, the Period of the Warring States has spawned many
innovations in Chinese society, including coinage, widespread replacement of bronze
weapons by iron weapons, and public works projects (canals, walls). The relative lack of
central control during the Warring States Period has also spawned the Hundred Schools
of Thought, considered to be the Golden Age of Chinese Philosophy. Prominent schools
are Confucianism, Taoism, Legalism, and Mohism.

350 BCE: Duke Xiao Gong of Chin moves his capital from Yung to Xianyang. Xiao Gong
will be the first great ruler of Chin, and Chin’s rise toward supreme power in China
begins with his reign.

348 BC: Second treaty between Carthage and Rome.

344 BCE: Philip II of Macedon conquers Thessaly, Illyria, and Epirus.

343 BCE: Mago sails to Syracuse to drive out the usurper, but fails and commits suicide in
order to avoid court martial upon his return. Hasdrubal and Hamilcar make a second
attempt, losing a battle at Segesta. Hasdrubal executed. Gisco, son of Hanno the Great, is
authorized to make peace. Sicily is divided along the Halycus River. 2nd Sicilian War
ends.

343-341 BCE: First Samnite War between Rome and the Samnites, a hill tribe from the
central Apennines. War inconclusive.

342 BCE: Aristotle tutors Alexander, son of Phillip II of Macedon.

341-338 BCE: Revolt of the Latin League against Rome. Rome is victorious. The Latin
League is dissolved. Some communities closest to Rome are fully absorbed into the
Roman state. Some Latin communities continue as technically independent states with
Latin rights, but they sign treaties that subordinate their foreign policy to that of Rome.
These states provide contingents for the Roman army. The least Romanized communities
receive a special form of second-rate citizenship. Citizens of these communities have the
obligations of Roman citizens (in particular military service) but are not allowed to vote
at Rome.

340 BCE: Pharaoh Nectanebo I over Egypt, he is succeeded by his son who takes to the throne as Nectanebo II. Also in this year, a power struggle in Syracuse ends with Timoleon of Corinth victorious.

338 BCE: King Artaxshassa (Artaxerxes) III of Persia dies, he is succeeded by Arsha
(Greek--Arses). Also in this year King Philip II of Macedon defeats Athens and Thebes at Chaeronea. Phillip forces most of the mainland Greek cities into the League of Corinth, under his leadership.

336 BCE: King Arsha (Arses) of Persia dies, he is succeeded by Darayavahush
(Darius) III. Darayavahush is a weak king who will be faced by rebellions in different
parts of the empire during his reign. Also in this year, Philip II of Macedonia is assassinated and is succeeded by his son Alexander III.

335-333 BCE: Revolts flare up in several Greek cities after the death of Phillip II. The new King Alexander puts these down mercilessly.

333 BCE: King Alexander III of Macedon receives an entreaty for aid from the Greeks of the Ionian coast, which are under attack by the forces of the Persian King Darayavahush III . He is not able to immediately come to their aid, as he is still putting down rebellions at home.

332-329 BCE: King Rumi-Ubalit II of Assyria sends Ambassadors to the young Alexander Of Macedon. They conclude an peace treaty between Macedon and Assyria against Persia. In the fall of that year Alexander's army crossed the Hellespont with about 40,000 Greek and Macedonian soldiers. After an initial victory against Persian forces at the Battle of Granicus, Alexander proceeded down the Greek cities of the Ionian coast and through Caria, Lycia and Pamphylia. At Halicarnassus in Caria, Alexander waged the first of many sieges. Turning inland, Alexander's army passed through the ancient Phrygian capital of Gordium, where Alexander solved the Gordian knot. The Macedonian Army Joins up with the Assyrian in Cicilia where they turn West, and in the Grand Battle of Nineveh(331 BCE), The Assyrian/Macedonian annhilates Darayavahush III's Third Army. When Darayavhush was forced to flee the field after his charioteer was killed, Alexander chased him as far as Arbela. When Darayavahush fled over the mountains to Ecbatana (modern Hamadan), Alexander marched to Babylon.

From Babylon, Alexander went to Susa, one of the Achaemenid capitals, and captured its treasury. Sending the bulk of his army to Persepolis, the Persian capital, by the Royal Road, while he stormed and captured the Persian Gates (in the modern Zagros Mountains), then sprinted for Persepolis before its treasury could be looted. The Assyrian forces convienceAlexander to deport all of the Persian Empire to Assyria, Egypt and Macedon. He then set off in pursuit of Darayavahush, who was kidnapped, and then murdered by followers of Bessus, his Bactrian satrap and kinsman. Bessus then declared himself Darayavahush's successor as Artaxerxes V and retreated into Central Asia to launch a guerrilla campaign against Alexander. With the death of Darius, Alexander declared the war of vengeance at an end, and released his Greek and other allies from service in the League campaign (although he allowed those that wished to re-enlist as mercenaries in his imperial army). His three-year campaign against Bessus and his successor Spitamenes took him through Media, Parthia(Both of Which are Deported), Aria, Drangiana, Arachosia, Bactria and Scythia. In the process he captured and refounded Herat and Samarkand.

327 BCE: King Rumi-ubalit (The Wise) of Assyria dies, he is succeeded by his son who takes to the throne as Rumi-ubalit II. Alexander the Great takes the land from Afghanistan to the Punjab and invades Northern India, butf\ ends his campaign after complaints from his army.

326 BCE: The Battle of the Hyspades, On the Viscous Battle against King Porus...The Young Macedonian King is Killed by one of the War Elephants. He names his childhood friend Hepheastion as his successor(Antigonus I Monophthalmus, Seleucus I Nicator Ptolemy, Eumenes and Lysimachus are all Killed in the Viscous Defeat). The remaining Assyrian/acedonian Military demand to return home and return back to Babylon By sea.

324 BCE: Hepheastion returns to Assyria where he greets the new king Rumi-ubalit II, he does not stay for long and returns to the Greek Mainland later that year.

323 BCE: Hepheastion returns to Macedon where he deposses Antipater(He keeps him as Commander General of Macedon) from the throne, and has Alexander's Kneiving mother Olympias killed. He marries an young Spartan woman named Callisto and Hepheastion proclaims the city his new capital, and begins planning the structure of his Oiekumene, restructuring the Persian civil service bureaucracy, integrating Greek culture with that of the Near East, and planning the his next conquest: Arabia Felix, the wealthy regions of coastal Arabia. The ports of the Oiekumene begin the construction of a massive fleet of ships to circumnavigate the Arabian Peninsula and conquer it.

322-321 BCE: The Arabian Expedition. Alexander sails around Arabia; on the way he conquers the Himyarite kingdom (northern Yemen) and the coasts north and east to Bahrein.

322-315 BCE: The Athenian Revolt, Out of all the Greek City States in Phillip's Corinthian Leauge Athens has remained the most powerful Hellenic State in the Hellas. Athens was incited to begin this war by the speeches of Demosthenes and Hyperides. Joined by cities in central and northern Greece, the Athenians defeated Antipater(Commander General of Macedon) and forced him to take refuge in Lamia, where he was besieged for several months by the allies in 321 BCE. Deomsthenes intrigues, Pharaoh Nectanebo II of Egypt to join up in allaince with Athens against the Tyrantical Macedon. King Rumi-ubalit II soon declares it's neutrality in the war.

The Egyptian Army lands in Marathon latter in 321 BCE, and the combined Athenian/Egyptian miltary annhilates all of the Macedonian Resitance in the Pelopenessuss. Word of the Athenian Rebellion soon reaches Hepheastion in Babylon(celebrating the birth of his newborn son Menelaus). He brings the Macedonian Eastern Army through the Macedonian Anatollian provience and in his most dastardally act begins the siege of Miletus(Similar to Alexander's Siege of Tyre which never took place in OTL). The Ionian Citites rally behind the Athenians against Macedon, and Nectanebo is able to fortify most of the Western most Greek Cities and manages to block of the Anatolian Army.

In 320 BCE, Under Demosthenes...The Athenian army pushes Northward and succeeds in Defeating Antipater's Army in Thessaly at the Battle of Crannon. Antipater himself is Killed, but soon through the Black Sea, King Hephaestion returns to Macedon to deal with the Athenians. The Athenian Army moves Westward and in the Battle of Ambracia is Defeated by the core Macedonian Army. The Italotes(Magna Greecians) Soon come to the aid of the Athenians and Together are able to enter Illyria and take the Macedonain Provience of Epirus. In 318 BCE, King Hepheastion signs an Treaty of allaince with Rome against Athens. The Athenian Army lands in the city of Crotone and push Rome's Latin Allies Northward. In the battle of Tarentum, The Roman forces are severally defeated and the Senate soon drops out of the War. Massila soon joins the Athenian alliance and is able to defeat the Roman allied Etruscan city-states north of the Po River. For another Three years, interminent Warfare between the two takes place but finally in the city of Nukratis an peace treaty between the powers.

The Athenian allied Greek States are given their independence, Macedon is able to keep all of it's Thrace, Most of the Black Sea City-States, and it's Persian Conquests. Egypt almost gains nothing in return.


320 and Onward BCE: King Rumi-Ubalit II unveills his plans to rebuild the Imperial city of Nineveh and restore it to it's former glory. He hires the best Greek, Persian, and Egyptian Archetics to design an New city based on all designs(Similar to Masuolu's Moselum). An Great Parthenon is built dedicated to the Assyrian Panthenon. An Royal Libary and several Academies, are built for to accumualte great centers of Learning. And finally the Great Assyrian Palace is built resembling the Great Pyramids of Egypt. The city itself will not be complete for some time, and the Assyrian Capital remains in Assur.

316 BCE: The Samnite Tribes severally defeat the Romans in the battle of Lautaude

c.a. 315 BCE: In the Aftermath of the War for Hellenic Indpendence, Many of the Greek City States feel the Pressures of another Dominating Athenian Empire. The logical candidate is the Greek Polei, and at the urging of Tuwatis, representatives of the Greek Polei meet on the island of Rhodes to discuss the formation of a new Hellenic State. Representatives of cities and provinces from Massila, Epirus, Ionia, Magna Graecia, Attica, and the Pelopenusseus are also invited to this meeting, and under the guiding hand of Pharaoh Nectanebo a new government is formed. The Greek state will be a republic. Laws for the republic will be made by a Legislature, called the Hellenic Assembly, with equal representation for each city and province of the new country. As in the old Delian League, a chief magistrate called an Archon will be elected to serve a Ten year term. The Archon will be the chief executive and head of state, and have command of the army. Each administrative unit of the Republic (city or province) will be bound to raise a certain number of troops for the standing army and navy of the Republic, based on it’s population. All of these troops will be equipped to the same standard, as specified by the Hellenic Assembly. Some of the Greek City-states such as Syracuse and Sparta refuse to joing the Republic, but it is accepted by After several months of Delibertion, This new United Greek Realm will be call by one and all as the Hellenic Oiekumene(Empire)


315 BCE: Agathocles of Syracuse takes Messana from Carthage.

314 BCE: The King of Chin inflicts a heavy defeat on the nomads of the northern steppes. These nomads will not trouble China for quite some time.

312 BCE: Battle of Danyang, in which Chin defeats Chu. Later that same year, the upper valley of the Han state is occupied by Chin; Hanchung, the Han capital, is captured. But a rump of the Han state survives.

311 BCE: Agathocles of Syracuse lays siege to Acragas and crosses the Halcyus, violating the peace treaty with Carthage.

311-302 BCE: Roman wars against the Etruscans, who had joined Samnites in their war on Rome. After the final Etruscan defeat at Roselle in 302 BC, all Etruscan cities and towns are forced into alliance with Rome.

310 BCE: Carthaginian force under Hamilcar, grandson of Hanno the Great, defeats a Greek force at Himera. Siege of Syracuse begins.

309 BCE: Agathocles sails with a force of 14,000 to Africa. Carthage meets him in battle with 40,000 foot, 1000 cavalry and 2000 chariots under Bomilcar and Hanno. The Greeks are victorious, Carthage losing 3000 on the battlefield, but the city itself is impregnable. The Siege of Syracuse continues.

308 BC: Bomilcar tries to make himself dictator in Carthage, but is defeated and tortured to death.Continued fighting between Greek and Carthaginian forces in Tunisia.


307 BCE: Greek victory outside Syracuse. Hamilcar is captured and killed. While Agathocles oversees events in Syracuse, however, Carthage defeats the Greek and allied forces in Africa. Despite Syracusan reinforcement, the Greek cause in Africa is doomed. Greeks desert to Carthaginian commanders Hanno and Himilco in vast numbers. A treaty favorable to Carthage is concluded.

306 BCE: Third treaty between Carthage and Rome.

302 BCE: King Hepheastion(The Conqueror) dies, he is succeeded by his son who takes to the throne as Phillip III.

300 BCE: King Rumi-Ubalit II of Assyria dies, he is succeeded by his son who takes to the throne as Sargon III(Taking the name from the Old Assyrian Dynasty). Also in this year, The Olgunian Law in Rome ends the monopoly of the patrician class on constructing law and procedure, greatly increasing the rights of the plebeian class.
 
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