History Disscussion 4-1.docx - The two States that I am...

The two States that I am focusing on in this post is the
Seleucid and the Minoan. According to the text they separated
after the after the death of Alexander the great and the end of
the Macedonian Empire. The Seleucid was the largest and
most diverse of the states. Their economy was run by
Agriculture and Taxes. The king during this time was Seleucus,
he moved the Capitol from into Syria, and there he imported
men for his army. The Seleucid Empire extended at its peak
from the Mediterranean to the borders of India, enduring from
312 to 129 BCE, after which it gradually broke up until its final
submission to Rome in 64 BCE. The total population supported
probably reached between 14 and 18 million inhabitants. One
of the key objectives of the Seleucid kings was to derive as
much revenue as possible from the underlying economy of
their empire without damaging its prospects. It was necessary
that this sum is in coin as much as possible since this was the
medium required to pay the mainly professional armies used