What are the consequences of Crassus beating the Parthians at Carrhae?
Wouldn't it only be a matter of time before the Persian client states rebelled though
What are the consequences of Crassus beating the Parthians at Carrhae?
You are so sure? First I think who Crassus being alive will stop Pompey from change side and ally himself with the Optimates, second Caesar (as almost all the generals involved in the Civil Wars) was not try to overthrow the Republic but was mostly defending himself from the Optimates' provocations and in any case Crassus himself was an enemy of the Optimates (Pompey had instead a more variable comportment whit them: if the Optimates accept who Pompey Magnus was the first man in Rome and wish being his allies well, if not he will be their enemy and if other give him alliance and an aristocratic bride (as Emilia, Mucia, Julia and Cornelia Metella were) was fine for him) and do not forget who Caesar was not an upstart (as Marius, Pompey, Cicero and also Octavian and Agrippa were) but an aristocratic Roman of a very ancient family...Gigantic butterflies everywhere. Just to start it of, the triumvirate between Crassius, Pompey and Ceasar survives. The following battles for power will be totally different. Crassius have paid for Ceasars political career, and won't see his debtor start a war against one of the richest men in the Republic (a sucessful Cassius would of course be the richest).
Cassius was successful in all areas apart from the military. Give him a triumph through Rome itself and his main ambition would be fullfilled. How his personality would be changed is impossible to describe - but I guess that he would like to protect the Rome (that contained the achivements of himself) against the upstart Ceasar.