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| (215-205) - Phillip V invades Illyria. Illyrians ask Romans for help, they quit to fight the Second Punic War, Treaty of Phoenice |
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| 205 - Phillip V keeps conquered territory in Illyria, but forbidden from expanding West |
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| Run up to Second Macedonian War |
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| (205-200) - Phillip turns his eye to the Aegean. Supports some pirates in Crete. Ptolemies are weak, after Ptolemy IV succeeded by a child. Seleucids and Macedonians make a land grab at Egypt. Rhodes and Pergamon don't like this send an embassy to Rome in 201. Rome sends Phillip and ultimatum forbidding him from making war against any Greek state |
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| Roman Reasons for Second Macedonian War |
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| Fear of Macedonian, Seleucid cooperation. Macedonians were within striking distance of Rome, memory of Hannibal. Still had a mobilized army, generals don't want to lost limelight, young nobles didn't get to fight in Punic. |
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| (200-197) - Macedonia wins for the first two years, then Titus Flamminius takes over, destroys the Macedonians at Cynoscephelae. Phillip gives up all territory in Greece, constricted to Macedonia. Greeks declared free. |
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| (192-188) - Antiochos convinced to invade Greece by the Aetolians, Greeks, Phillip V support Romans, Antiochos defeated. Treaty of Apamea |
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| (171-168) - Perseus trying to gain power again, Euemenes II and Rome go to war against him, defeated at Battle of Pydna. Macedonia divided into 4 republics, monarchy outlawed, building ships and coins banned. Rome strikes against pretty much everyone. |
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| (170-168) Antiochus IV almost takes all of Egypt. A Roman envoy tells him to go home, he obeys. |
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