HISTORY 70B Chapter Notes - Chapter article: Achilles, Halabiye
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Asiatic provinces of the empire almost taken over by persians and then rulers of. Palmyra is around an oasis in the syrian desert. Zenobia ruled this city and she had courage and energy. She apparently almost damaged the size of the roman empire but then she was defeated after a lot of fighting. Aurelian just took over antioch and promised safety to all the inhabitants. Next he was fighting zenobia and her ally zaba in emesa. Entire empire depended on the outcome of this battle. By some miracle, they won even though all the troops were tired from having fighting so much before. So they took over emesa and he was like the master of the east or something. Robbers of syria kept attacking aurelian"s troops on their march towards. So eventually, aurelian wrote zenobia a letter that basically told her that if she surrendered, her life would be spared.
