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The Romans spent near 700 years in what is now Iraq, trying and ultimatly failing to capture it.
What if they had succeeded? POD, Trajen's conquests are not returned by Hadrian. Do you butterfly the Sassanids away? Perhaps with so much of the Army not deployed in the east, they can do a better job guarding against Germanic invasions? Perhaps no crisis of the Third Century, which was caused mainly by the constant war in the east and the barracks emperors it created. Presume the Zagros is Romes Frontier.
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