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Episode 94, the Senate v. Skippiokanus.

With the peace of Apamea agreed upon by nearly all involved parties, the war with Antiochus

III was now over.

In an ideal world, the Republic would have packed up operations and returned immediately to Italy, with plenty of plunder in tow.

However, the transition of a post-Silucat Asia Minor was a bit more complicated than they would have liked.

They also had unfinished business in places like Greece, with the Aetolian League still actively resisting talks with the Republic.

Yet by the end of the 180s, some of the actively resisting talks with the Republic.

Yet by the end of the one eighties, some of the most important figures of the time would

cede their careers come to an end, ushering a new era of history, with the Romans poised

as the dominant power of the Mediterranean world.

Rome's victory over Antiochus III was remarkably decisive, and as per the terms of the treaty,

it demanded that he evacuate all of his garrisons from Asia Minor and be sequestered to the south of the Taurus Mountains.

Like with Greece following the Second Macedonian War, the Republic in turn did not claim any territories for itself,

but was now left with the task

of reorganization to ensure that some sort of stable equilibrium was left behind.

During the negotiations of the Treaty with Antiochus, another commission of ten legates

was a dispatch to Asia to hear out the various communities' petitions.

The Republic gave generously to its two most important allies,

Umanis II of Pergamon and the city-state of Rhodes.

Rhodes received the southwestern territories of Lycia and Caria,

while Umanis got the lion's share of everything else.

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