-329
This page relates to the year -329 Calendrier Julien proleptic.
Events
- the armies of Alexandre Large the leave to the conquest the Hyrcanie, the Bactriane and the Sogdiane. Alexandre founds there military colonies (70, says one) which take the name of Alexandria (- 329/-327).
- Spitaménès and Oxyartès, which delivered to Alexandre Bessus, the assassin of Darius III with the beginning of the year, take the head of resistance in Bactriane and Sogdiane. With the end of the year, Spitaménès besieges Maracanda (Samarkand) while Alexandre fights more in north against the Scythes.
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Artabaze is named satrap of Bactriane.
Economy & company
- Alexandre encourages massive immigration in Asia of Greeks so that it colonize “Alexandria” (Hérat, Kandahar, Samarkand, Mary, etc) or other cities. These cities are intended to control the conquered areas, to develop the trade and to support the adhesion of the barbarians to the market economy and Greek civilization. To achieve these goals, Alexandre strikes a single currency in great quantity, is interested in new cultures, the improvement of the races of pets, sends specialists to study the Indian mines, the draining of the ponds and marshes, try to fix the nomads, make build roads, bridges and ports. Many experts and scientists accompany forwarding.
- Cléomène de Naucratis, which manages the Egypt, strongly increases the taxation of corn exports whereas the famine prevails in the Aegean Sea.
Art & culture
- Installation of the Circus Maximus in Rome.
Births
Death