Comments by "" (@neutronalchemist3241) on "Total War History: The First Punic War (Part 1/4)" video.

  1. At that time Syracuse was the largest city in the Greek world. The Sicilian Expedition of Athens to subjugate Syracuse during the Peloponnesian War had been described by Isocrates as "a pure act of madness" whose failure turned the tide of a war that the Atheneans were winning until then, and led to their ultimate defeat.
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  2. It's really difficult to estimate the number of inhabitants of ancient cities, I've seen estimates ranging from 150.000 to 500.000. It depends also if you consider only the city, or the entire state (many inhabitants were peasants that lived outside the city). It's known that, at that time, Syracuse was the largest city in the Greek world.
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  3. landowning yes, wealthy not that much. If you could afford the basic equipment, you had the duty to join the Legion.
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