07-25-2012, 06:57 PM
Getting to the other stuff George, but, a quickie before bed...
There's a lot of assumption there George (as with some other of your earlier points). Babylonian tablets testify to the major depredations of Alexander's army (steep grain prices and grain shortages) as well as during the Diadoch battles. It doesn't do to simply assume "big empire" so "big resources" and networks of "complexes" to explain everything. You would claim the sources (Herodotus for the great part) truthful and the basis for the discussion. Where is the source material for this?
Quote:Well... I cannot say what the exact bases that he would have built were, Sardis surely being one, but as far s capacities were concerned, storehouses could be really huge... A large amount of Egypt's grain was stored in such, Mesopotamia's too. The technology was there, so was the manpower. A network of comlpexes of granaries throughout the Empire would have been constructed/utilized and linked with caravans that would keep the flow of grain towards the sea.
There's a lot of assumption there George (as with some other of your earlier points). Babylonian tablets testify to the major depredations of Alexander's army (steep grain prices and grain shortages) as well as during the Diadoch battles. It doesn't do to simply assume "big empire" so "big resources" and networks of "complexes" to explain everything. You would claim the sources (Herodotus for the great part) truthful and the basis for the discussion. Where is the source material for this?
Paralus|Michael Park
Ἐπὶ τοὺς πατέρας, ὦ κακαὶ κεφαλαί, τοὺς μετὰ Φιλίππου καὶ Ἀλεξάνδρου τὰ ὅλα κατειργασμένους
Wicked men, you are sinning against your fathers, who conquered the whole world under Philip and Alexander!
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Ἐπὶ τοὺς πατέρας, ὦ κακαὶ κεφαλαί, τοὺς μετὰ Φιλίππου καὶ Ἀλεξάνδρου τὰ ὅλα κατειργασμένους
Wicked men, you are sinning against your fathers, who conquered the whole world under Philip and Alexander!
Academia.edu
