Would it have worked?
No because Greeks are useless turds
no, rome was always going to fuck up
It would have been unfathomably wealthy but nothing last forever. Eventually it would collaspe. Rome as a city might have 3 million people living in it at its peak.
No, because the Romans could not possibly have established any kind of Roman government over Persia. Persia was densely populated and steeped in its own ancient culture. It'd be like trying to cool down a boiling lake of lava with a few ice cubes. Trying to impose a top-down Roman hegemony would just lead to endless rebellions, and these wouldn't be tribal barbarian rebellions, but entire cities arming their populations of tens of thousands as militias. There would be plenty of soldiers and former soldiers around to organize and lead them. Whatever legions were stationed there would be hopelessly outnumbered, in unfamiliar territory, and too far for any real help to reach them. Literally the only way you could ever hope to conquer Persia would be exactly what the Romans tried for centuries: you peel away their client states and tributaries, then raid into their border provinces and weaken them before a fatal, conquering thrust to lay a permanent stake. After a judicious amount of wholesale slaughter, you attempt to establish a permanent Roman presence over the population and gradually Romanize them. And you just repeat this process of piecemeal conquest. Persia was too big to conquer in one go, the way Caesar did Gaul. In terms of population, persia was the equivalent of like 20 Gauls all stacked up on top of each other with far more heavily fortified cities and long a history of defeating Roman armies. The only way to do it would be to cut off smaller pieces of Persia and eat those first. Chewing thoroughly to get the resistance out.But it failed. It failed because even the westernmost frontier of Persia was too much for the Romans to absorb. The Persians were too tenacious, constantly flipped their tributaries and vassals back to their side after the Romans flipped them, and simply had overwhelming familiarity with rugged terrain of their homeland that let them ambush and outmaneuver every Roman army sent against them.
>>18423941Best option for Caesar take logistic hub like Media quickly, than go corridor and up to Parthia.
>>18423941Persia was not densely populated.Iran had a population of 2 million when they defeated 60 million Roman Republic. Gaul had a population of 12 million when Julius conquered it.But the Gauls were weak, like the Britons, Dacians, Iberians, etc.
>>18425455>IberiansIt took 800 years for SHITALIANS to conquer iberian BVLLS
>>18425493Romanlet fear them
>>18425493It took the Carthaginians a decade https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcid_conquest_of_HispaniaThe Romans conquered Iberia easily, but the revolts took decades to subdue because Romans were focused on sending legions to rich areas such as Carthage, Gaul, and Greece. Not shitholes like Iberia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_conquest_of_the_Iberian_Peninsula
>>18423941>Persia was densely populated and steeped in its own ancient culture. It'd be like trying to cool down a boiling lake of lava with a few ice cubes. Trying to impose a top-down Roman hegemony would just lead to endless rebellions, and these wouldn't be tribal barbarian rebellions, but entire cities arming their populations of tens of thousands as militiasIf Rome never took egypt you would be saying literally the same thing about Egypt.same thing too for Anatolia and Greece which Rome also took.If anything Persia would be easier to wrangle once their aristocracy is dead on the field because they are a metropolitan urbanized people, they wouldnt see the Romans as barbarian conquerors but as another Empire similar to themselves and offering protection in exchange for tribute and would have had a much more fair code of laws which would have appealed to the average plebs, not all of whom were related to the aristocracy.
>>18423718In the reality the opposite happened, Persianate and Semitic civilization prevailed over the Roman and Greek one.
>>18425860The Romans conquered Iberia barely.
