202 Decades of Western History

110 - 119 AD: Following Alexander


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Rome reaches its greatest territorial heights as Emperor Trajan does his best Alexander the Great impression.

His conquests took him through Armenia and into Parthia - spurred on by a Parthian civil war. The western half of Parthia including Babylon, Ctesiphon, and all of Mesopotamia were captured. Then, revolts ripped across Cyrenaica, Egypt, Cyprus, and Mesopotamia, tearing all of Trajan's conquests out of his hands

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