•Fifty years after defeating the Carthaginians, Rome had become the mightiest state in the east, first
by conquering
Hannibal’s ally Philip V, king of Macedonia;
•Philip’s ambition to dominate the
Aegean Sea
drew Rome into the Second Macedonian War (200-197 BC), which ended with his defeat.
•Next came the liberation of Greece
and a war
against Antiochus III, king of Syria, who was defeated by the Romans at Magnesia in 190 BC and obliged to surrender Asia Minor.
•In the Third (and final) Macedonian
War, Macedonia
was made a Roman province in 146 BC.
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