Phoenician Guide for a Successful

Empire

Table of Contents

Military strategy Carefulness With Control and Expansion LimitsAllies

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My Eldest Son,

My days as a ruler are coming to an end. I am old, my strength is failing , and my days are numbered. Before I pass on, I entrust the rule of my empire to you.

You are a young man, though, and need much guidance in the ways of building and maintaining an empire. Along with the help of my scribes, I have decided to create a guide to ensure that my empire remains strong and prosperous for generations to come.

May the Gods be with You,Nebuchadrezzar

Introduction

Milit

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iesMilitary strategies were important to maintaining an empire because they

provided protection. One example, was the city walls. The city wall is about two chariots wide(it's really big). In the Neo-Babylonian Empire, there are 2 city walls. One on the outside and one in the inside of the city-state. This provided protection because if the enemies could pass the first city wall, then they'd have to pass through another one. That would take much more time, and the armies from that city-state could attack while they tried to pass. On the city walls, there were towers where the archers would stand and protect the city-state. A moat was dug and filled with water, around the city walls. Bridges were built too. During peacetime, the bridges were available for the citizens to pass, but during war time, they'd destroy the bridge(s), so nobody could pass. Another thing, was the new, updated strategies. There were much more advances in their military strategies.They, the Assyrians, had newly trained armies, new weapons, and new strategies. One new strategy they had was, one from Sargon. Sargon was one of the Akkadian Empire rulers. He was a strong ruler, and a skilled general.

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Name: Mariana

He had really good strategies for organizing armies, like the following one: the people with spears were located in the back, and the people with the shields were located in the front, with the spears pointing out in between them. This connects The new weapons they had were the ones made of iron. Iron was much stronger than copper. They trained their armies with horses, so it was easier to fight. As we have seen, military strategies evolve through time following new material discoveries and new techniques, all aiming to increase protection from the city-state.

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Allie

s Allies are good to have because they can almost always provide what you need. First of all, allies can give you the resources you need. They can give you food such as grain, wheat, etc. Allies can also give you armies. Armies would help in a battle. Having resources is important because it prevents your empire from dying. To keep your empire up, you need to have enough resources so you can make goods such as clothing or making luxury. For example, if you want to make battling tools, you'll have to have iron. You would also need to make a fire to make metal, so you would need timber. If you have an empire, you will need to collect resources and those resources might be close to some other empire’s land. People would spread out in order to get the resources they want. My guess is that, like in the simulation, they spread out and stayed were the resources were until they had enough. Second, allies can trade with you and have treaties. If you have something that you don't need anymore, then you can trade it and make agreements with your allies; for instance, you already have enough cattle and you don't want it anymore, so you can trade the cattle. When you have what you need, then you can make goods, as I mentioned. Sometimes you might be trading something that is valuable to the people that you are trading with and get something that is valuable to you. Third, allies give you armies when needed. When you are having a battle with another empire, you would need to have a lot of armies in order to win. If you don't have enough armies, you can lose. No one wants to lose, more than their own armies. Allies were helpful because they would give you supplies that would keep your empire safe.

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Carefulness W

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By Thiago

Lack of control and over expansion are one of the strongest things that can make empires fall and it can cause bad management over areas of the empire and weakening barriers. Especially, the management over the regions of the empire are vital for its survival. The inadequate management can occur when there aren't many people to take care of each city-state of the empire. For example, the ruler is the one who controls everything in the empire. The problem is that he can't know currently what is happening in each place, and he can't be in two places at once. That is why there should be other people taking care of multiple areas of the empire to avoid the loss of control. One example of a good control is what Sargon did with his empire. He replaced the leaders of each city-states he subdued with his followers to manage it. So even with a huge space to control, Sargon was able to administer it with precision. Another vital factor to keep track of in an empire is the weakening of

barriers. If enemies see at least one weakness on the defense system of the other enemy, they strike. This problem is more common when there is over expansion because there will be smaller amount of armies to protect every area of the huge empire. An example of over expansion is the fall of the Assyrian Empire. The empire was humongous for the poor management, and enemy attacks caused the fall of the weakened, defenseless empire. With a smaller territory, it is much easier to manage because you can focus all your work and protection there and make the area really strong instead of

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This is the bad part about being an empire, such a big territory demands a careful and organized administration that only comes when there are exceptional leaders for each region. Leading back to the part I talked about impoverished administration, the weakening barriers made the empires exposed to any sort of attack from the enemy. Recapitulating, if you occupy a big area you will need very cautious management. If you don't take care of the empire and administer it incorrectly, there will unquestionably be enemy attacks towards the weak empire. In conclusion, an empire can't survive if its territory is not managed or is too big for the management itself.

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The Assyrian Empire

Management & Responsibility Shared For Better Control

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A food surplus was a vital area for an empire to be successful because without it everyone would die, and people provide jobs to the community which contributes to the existence of the empire itself. People made jobs that made the society function. For example, farmers were essential for the food surplus in the society. If there isn't enough food to feed all in the empire, only the higher classes would receive the food. So then, famers, who are in the bottom of the social class order, would all starve and there would be no food for everyone. This would lead to the discretion of the area the empire occupied. The protection would be weakened and any enemy strikes towards that empire would unquestionably bring its fall. In conclusion, a reliable food surplus provided the

empire to function.

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