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This is a thread for what ifs ranging from the founding of Rome to now the fall of Constantinople. Here are two of mine.

Just before his eastern campaigns finishes Pompey decides to take war to the Parthians. He gathers as many men as he could and sets out for the Parthian empire. And against all odds he beats the Parthians in battle after battle breaking there military power for a generation. In the end the Parthians are forced to surrender to Rome there territory west of the zargos. Pompey then organizes the new Roman territory as provinces and client kingdoms. To top off his conquest of the east he takes the remnants of Ptolemaic empire and makes it into a Roman provience.

Would pompeys actions count as illegal warfare in the eyes of the senate? If it's what would Pompey and the senate do. If it isn't how powerful is Pompey now? How would Crassus handle the fact he got robbed of all the good eastern conquest by Pompey? Now that Pompey is in the east longer what would Caesar do without his support? Can anyone top pompey as first man in Rome? With more power can Pompey get his eastern settlement and land for his veterans passed by the senate alone?


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In 65 bc Cato the younger dies from a bad fall. Can the consertive faction of the senate rally from there most famous members death and try to stop pompeys demands and Crassus demands. And if they can't what does ceaser do with the two most powerful men in Rome not needing to join him?
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