Ptolemaic Egypt (jan 1, 31 BC – mar 1, 476)
Description:
-Where: Egypt-They founded Greek style cities and made lots of money; vast revenue poured into the treasury from rent payments, taxes, and monopolies on olive oil, salt, and papyrus
-The land was easy to rule b/c the ppl were all the same ethnicity; they also encouraged Greeks to move from the homeland and rewarded them for doing so
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Date:
jan 1, 31 BC
mar 1, 476
~ 507 years