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Explanation: The Roman Empire and Persian (Parthian/Sassanid era) Empire often quarreled over who was RIGHTLY entitled to LORDSHIP over the RIGHTFUL VASSAL ARMENIA, and would engage in long, fruitless wars on the matter of who was going to appoint the next king, with Armenians conscripted for both sides to be tossed in the meat grinder.
… Armenia, sandwiched between the two powers, was rarely consulted as to its wishes.
Lvxferre [he/him]The “weirdest” part is that they didn’t usually try to conquer Armenia. It was mostly forcing it to be their client state / vassal. But I guess it makes sense? From either side’s PoV it was a nice buffer zone against the other side.
For Rome, at least, that was their MO for non-hostile neighbors - make a neighboring polity a client state until they were dependent enough (and with the appropriate legal pretext) to annex entirely. The issue is that nowhere else did they have to ‘play ball’ with another power of similar strength who kept interrupting their attempts to install generations of pro-Roman elites into the extant society and its institutions. Bloody Persians!
Egypt, for example, was effectively a client kingdom for almost a hundred years before annexation.
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Explanation: The Roman Empire and Persian (Parthian/Sassanid era) Empire often quarreled over who was RIGHTLY entitled to LORDSHIP over the RIGHTFUL VASSAL ARMENIA, and would engage in long, fruitless wars on the matter of who was going to appoint the next king, with Armenians conscripted for both sides to be tossed in the meat grinder.
… Armenia, sandwiched between the two powers, was rarely consulted as to its wishes.
Armenia and Poland don’t exactly come up as nations whose sovereignty is respected in world history
Being sandwiched between empires never really works out great, tbh