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Socio-economic status of Ptolemaic soldiers[edit]
Ptolemy I granted his soldiers land to order to strengthen their loyalty. The granting of land also allowed for soldiers to easily mobilize when needed in times of war. This concluded to the distribution of soldiers throughout the countryside alongside the founding of a single Greek polis in Egypt, Ptolemais. The Ptolemies also created a cleruchy system in order to collect revenue from these plots of land. The addition of the cleruchy system allowed for "the diversification of the location of military settlements, a decrease and leveling of the size of soldiers’ plots and expansion of the system to a larger pool of locally recruited individuals."[1]
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- ^ Fischer-Bovet, Christelle, "Economic status and social networks of soldiers and officers", Army and Society in Ptolemaic Egypt, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 303–328, ISBN 978-1-139-03523-1, retrieved 2020-11-27