Italy was a melting pot of different cultures to the north with the Etruscans
and Celtic tribes in the center were the Latin and Italian tribes and on the tip
of the peninsula was a large concentration of Greek colonies in an
area called Magna Grecia the Latin Romans would eventually threaten the
established Greek colonies with the state of Epirus springing into action to
defend their Greek cousins in Italy the kingdom of Epirus was a Greek kingdom
located in the Western Balkans the area had been occupied since at least the
Neolithic times by seafarers and traders these seafarers brought with them the
Greek language the people occupying actress during this timeframe buried
their leaders in large tombs by the end of the second millennium BC the Dorian's
migrated by invasion into Greece via Epirus and Macedon although the reason
why they did this has been lost to history by the 1st millennium BC three
distinct tribes had emerged an empress with the center of the region in
occupied by a tribe called the Mollosians
by 370 BC onwards the Mollosians were expanding their power at the expense of
rival tribes however the formants state began to
experience harsh raids from the neighboring alien tribes who just by
chance were also raiding nearby Macedon recognizing they had a common enemy the
two powers allied with the Alliance being sealed by the marriage of the
upright princess Olympius to king philip ii of macedon Olympius and king philip
eventually had a son and his name was Alexander following his father's death
Alexander would lead an exhibition against the huge Persian Empire
eventually overthrowing the Persians and carving out a huge Empire for himself
being given the title of Alexander the Great
now whilst this was happening Alexander's uncle also called Alexander
just to make things more confusing led an exhibition into southern Italy
supporting the Greek cities of Magna Grecia against the Italian tribes
although initially successful Alexander eventually was defeated by a coalition
of italic tribes in 331 BC the subsequent fallout of Alexander the
Great's death in Babylon resulted in Greece briefly being controlled by the
ambitious general Cassander who in over 313 BC he founded the a pride king with
his young a Prince Pyrrhus flee into Egypt and friend in the ptolemies and
eventually returning to retake his kingdom in 281 BC Pyrrhus answered the
call to aid the Greek city-states of Tarentum
in Magna Grecia against the Romans Pyrrhus would go on to defeat the Romans
several times utilizing war elephants in the region
for the very first time however the losses Pyrrhus sustained was
so high that it's believed he has said something along the lines of another
victory against the Romans and we shall be utterly ruined Pyrrhus then turned
South invading Sicily after being offered the crown of the Greek
city-states in the region however his campaign in this region were proved to
be unsuccessful Pyrrhus eventually returning to Italy however after a
battle in 275 BC Pyrrhus lost all of his Italian holdings and returned to Epirus
with his campaign in Italy in ruins Pyrrhus went to war with Macedonia in 275
BC and briefly ruled over the regions of Macedon and Thessaly until 285 BC after
this he invaded southern Greece being killed by an old woman thrown a brick at
him in a Street battle in the Greek city of Argos with Pyrrhus death Epirus
became a minor power with royal family being deposed in 233 BC with this the
Eporite league was set up and managed to remain neutral during the first two wars
between Rome and Macedon however Emperor's did not survive the
third war in conquered eventually by the Romans
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