HIST 3131 Lecture 6: HIST 3131 Lecture 6.docx
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Key themes: the aggression of the romans, always the aggressor, always on foreign territory. Importance of foreign policy: most decisions made by senate, sometimes by the people, political motivation. 188 bce, leader forced out of asia minor. 133 bce - king adyless iii bequeathed the city to rome (pergamum), royal estates given to roman people. Bethinya and pontus were covered by mithridatic wars. Persians destroyed after alexander, left state independent. Kept the state independent by promoting docile roman views. While mithridates was building pontaic empire, romans occupied by gauls and other peoples. Surrounding greek nations call on romans for aid. Began when romans encouraged all, nicomedes of bithiniya, to raid territory of mithridates. Mithridates overran the roman province of asia and even some greek cities in the aegean and. Sulla managed to inflict some serious defeats on mithridates and force him to make a peace treaty. Mithridates territory was raided by sulla"s leiutenant, licinius murena.
