e_b.txt edits - colonies
I volunteered to edit text and have been instructed by Kull to open this thread. It contains edits I have made to the export_buildings.txt Colony Buildings.
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Colonial Administration - reduces population growth, increases order
{apoikia} Colonia
{apoikia_desc}
In antiquity, colonies were often founded by vanquished peoples who were exiled as losers of internecine war or who were attempting to escape subjugation at the hand of a foreign enemy. Sometimes, to avoid internal convulsions, colonies were established to eliminate a city’s surplus population. In most cases, however, the object of colonization was the establishment and facilitation of trade relations with foreign countries.
{apoikia_desc_short}
A colony of a distant state founded to trade with foreign peoples.
{apoikia_greek} Apoikia
{apoikia_greek_desc}
Hellenes, like the Phoinikoi and other peoples inhabiting the shores of the Mesogeios, were well-known as a fearless sea-faring people. Their naval prowess and adventurous spirit led them, sometimes en masse, to areas far from their homelands. The reasons for these Hellenic migrations were often the destruction of homelands by invaders or exile following internal strife. Colonization also served as a way for the founding city to reduce its population in times of need. The most common reason for colonization was, however, the consolidation of trade relationships with other peoples. Merchants, artisans, craftsmen and poor people who had experienced hardships at home would leave to build new settlements in favorable locations. In the course of time, the Hellenes built many such settlements in the lands around the Mediterranean, usually near the sea. Sometimes these settlements evolved into large cities of great importance. Although most apoikiai cherished their autonomy, they usually kept bonds of friendship with their city-state of origin ('metropolis', or mother-city) and relied upon their help in times of great peril.
{apoikia_greek_desc_short}
An apoikia is a Hellenic colony far from the homeland devoted to trade and cultural exchange with other peoples.
{apoikia_seleucid} Colonia
{apoikia_seleucid_desc}
Colony\n\nThe colonia was a settlement of Roman citizens established to defend and integrate occupied areas into the Roman Res Publica. The great number of Romans present in the colonia set an example of the Roman way of life and played an important role in the Romanization of a province. The settlers also provided a local source of soldiers who were ready to defend their new home against any enemy and suppress unrest. The establishment of a colonia relieved overpopulation, traditionally one of the most common reasons to engage in colonization.\n\nHistorically, the Romani founded two different types of colonies. Colonies could be founded by the senate and the consuls for civilian settlers or, by the time of the mid-republic, by a general for his veterans. The founding of early Roman colonies were dominated by strategic and military aspects. Rome’s colonization strategy together with its network of roads was a key to success in the 4th century BC struggle to become the sole Italian hegemon. Later, by the end of the second century BC, colonies were more likely to be established to provide land for small farmers or soldiers. Because of their direct descent from Roma, colonies were among the most important cities in the Roman world. Later, during the reign of the emperor Claudius, who was interested in integrating the subdued peoples of the provinces into Roman society, an existing city could receive the rank and the rights of a colonia even without a previous influx of new roman settlers so long as some Roman citizens lived there permanently.
{apoikia_seleucid_desc_short}
A colonia is a settlement of Roman citizens established to defend occupied territories, integrate them into the roman state, and relieve population pressure in the mother city.
{apoikia_carthage} Warning - Colony
{apoikia_carthage_desc}
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{apoikia_numidia} Ptolemaic Colony (TRANSLATE ME PLEASE!)
{apoikia_numidia_desc}
Ptolemaic Military Colony\n\nThe Ptolemaioi never trusted and rarely armed the native populations. Thus, they like the other Diadochoi states, needed Hellenic colonists for support and military service. Due to excess lands and the wealth of the Neilos, Ptolemaios Soter and his successors gave tracts of land to any Hellene wishing to settle in Aigyptos in return for military or other service. Galatians and Jews were sometimes given land as well. Most Hellenes settled in the cities of Lower Egypt or built estates just outside them. Some also settled in the fertile Fayyum depression, which became the main recruiting ground for cavalry.
{apoikia_numidia_desc_short}
The newly settled Hellenes of this colony cultivate Aigyptian land and provide able men for Ptolemaic armies.
{apoikia_eastern} Hellenistic Colony (TRANSLATE ME PLEASE!)
{apoikia_egyptian} Punic Colony (TRANSLATE ME PLEASE!)
{apoikia_roman} Apoikia
{apoikia_roman_desc}
Colony\n\nNew EB Description Required
{apoikia_roman_desc_short}
New EB Description Required
{apoikia_romans_julii} Apoikia
{apoikia_romans_julii_desc}
Seleukid Colony\n\ Hellenes, like the Phoinikoi and other peoples that inhabited the shores of the Mesogeios, were well-known as a fearless sea-faring people. Their naval prowess and adventurous spirit led them, sometimes en masse, to areas far from their homelands. The reasons for these Hellenic migrations included devastation in the old Hellenic environs, the call of greater opportunity, or even a state mandate. Merchants, artisans, craftsmen and poor people who experienced hardships at home would often leave to build their own settlements in favorable locations. Hellenic Misthophoroi were often settled alongside the natives of the Seleukid poleis. Enterprising satraps and rulers used these Misthophoroi and other native sympathetics to defend against the marauding barbarian horsemen that threatened the empire’s borders. Other times settlements were granted to loyal peoples disenfranchised from their own settlements or to those seeking or directed to capitalize on a profitable niche in local geography. These new cities attracted their own independent populations and exemplified the cultural heritage that brought Hellenic settlers to foreign lands.
{apoikia_romans_julii_desc_short}
This settlers in this hellenic colony provide able men for the armies of the Seleukid poleis.
{apoikia_romans_brutii} Apoikia
{apoikia_romans_brutii_desc}
Baktrian Colony\n\nAfter the conquests of Alexandros, waves of Hellenes emigrated to Baktria and other newly conquered areas in the east. Merchants, artisans, craftsmen and poor people who had experienced hardships at home would build new settlements in favorable locations. Most of the Greek colonists that came to Baktria were allotted tracts of land called Kleroi. To rule the new kingdom, the Baktrian leadership needed Greek settlers for support, the necessary skills that they brought with them, and for military service. The Greek colonists served as phalangitai and cavalry for the Baktrian armies because the native Iranians were considered untrustworthy. Colonies were often built at easy-to-defend locations. Sometimes they were constructed near preexisting settlements. These previous settlements were sometimes abandoned after the new colony was established.\n\nAccording to ancient sources and archaeological excavations, most settlers probably came from Hellenic Anatolia, specifically the Meander valley, and from northern Hellas. A statuette was discovered at Takht-i-Sangin that represents the River Oxos as Marsyas playing the double flute, the iconographic form in which Hellenic art depicted the Meander’s main source. The connection to northern Hellas is shown by Hellenic names such as Kineas, Molossos, Triballos, and Lysanias, that are characteristic to that region.
{apoikia_romans_brutii_desc_short}
This Hellenic colony is made up of settlers who have dared to make the long journey from Hellas to Baktria and now till the land of the Baktrian rulers.
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As a test of your skills, please take a crack at generating a one-line summary. As editors we usually don't write new stuff, but you'll often find missing short descripts, and it's easier for the team if we write them.
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