Western Civilization I / Unit 6 WC1 0512 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Mithridates, Pompey, and the Mediterranean by 63 BCE
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The idea
By one forty Rome controlled almost the whole Mediterranean from Spain to Anatolia. Mithridates VI of Pontus fought three wars from eighty-eight as a liberator to his followers and died in sixty-three, the year the Seleucid remnant ended. Pompey organized the East.
In practice
Only Egypt still independent.
Where people slip
Provinces meant tribute and governors. Most subjects were not citizens.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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