Sicily has been a melting pot of civilizations for pretty much all of its

history due to a strategic spot in the center of the Mediterranean being a

vital stepping stone between Africa and Italy this was the case during the early

years of civilization in the region with the island essentially being split into

two zones of influences the portion to the west of the island was dominated by

the naval power of Carthage whilst the east the area was under the direct

influence of Greek colonies with the principal Greek colony being located on

the tip of this area this is the history of the great city-state of Syracuse

Sicily and its surrounding areas have been inhabited since ancient times

as shown by the many villages of the area such as Stentinelo which later gave

its name to the unique culture which sprang up on the island had already

established a trading relationship with the myceneans a warlike culture which

had taken root in Bronze Age Greece the people of the stentinello culture

primarily traded cereal food such as wheat and barley however they also

developed industries of specializing in obsidian bone and pottery the fragile

network of Bronze Age diplomacy and trade would collapse in the event

fittingly called the Bronze Age collapse which affected many of the great powers

of the age such as Egypt the Hittites and the Mycenae ins of Greece who

themselves were overpowered by the migrating Dorian's plunging the Greek

Peninsula into the period known as the Greek Dark Ages which as it turns out

wasn't so dark at all as we actually know quite a lot about this timeframe

out of this timeframe a few Greeks from the Greek cities of Corinth and team led

by the colonizer called Archos set out from their mother cities in search of

new land to set up a colony eventually arriving in Sicily and founding a city

sera kosai and Scirocco eventually becoming known as Syracuse the name

probably comes from the name of the nearby marshlands which were called

Sayaka given how quickly saira queues became an established colony it is

likely that this colonization was a planned event most likely orchestrated

by a Chios Arceus laid out how the property would be divided up for the

settlers as well as plans for how the streets of the settlement should be

arranged even going so far as to detail how wide they should be

the central hub of the new city was the small island of Volta here a small

island just off of mainland Sicily in the surrounding area the new Greek

colonists found fertile land and a surprisingly positive welcomed by the

native tribes in the region as a result of this the city of Syracuse quickly

grew and prospered into a powerful Greek city for some time being the most

powerful Greek city in the Mediterranean eventually the colony itself would have

colonies founding the cities of a cry in 664 BC Tasmania in 643 OCH rely and hell

arose in the 7th century BC and finally Camarena in 598 BC as the founding

members of the city the gamma ROI held power until they were expelled by the

killer Troy the lower class of the city however this power of the people did not

last that long with the gamma Roy return to power in 485 BC mainly as a result of

help from jell-o the ruler of jela a nearby city to saira cous

genican itself would move many of the inhabitants of Gela Camarena and Megara

to syracuse building the new quarters of teach a neo palace outside the walls

jellow continued his building reforms including a brand new theater this

theater resulted in a flourishing cultural life attracting many from the

Greek mainland who began to migrate to this new hub of culture resulting in

Syracuse becoming a dominant power in Sicily however as stated before

Zaira Cuse is not the only power in Sicily the Carthaginians had been

occupying the western portion of Sicily for some time now and the growing power

of Syracuse meant that war with the city-state was simply inevitable in the

resulting Battle of hai meraa jell-o and his allies decisively defeated the

Carthaginian forces led by hamilkar in celebration of this massive victory the

people of Syracuse erected a temple dedicated to Athena the Greek goddess of

wisdom and warfare to commemorate the event with their power secured sire Cuse

grew considerably during this time with its walls encircling an area of 120

hectares in the 5th century however this did not stop the people of saira hughes

building outside of the walls with the population under the city's control

being around 250,000 with the city itself having a similar population to

that of Athens Genesis successful rain eventually came to an end with his

brother hero succeeding him

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