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Article: Rome on the potomac: like it or not, America today finds itself an imperial power committed to maintaining an empire. The only question is what kind of empire? (The United States)(Cover Story).(Cover Story)
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- The International Economy
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- June 22, 2003
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It was around 88 B.C. when the king of Pontus--Mithridates VI, sometimes called Mithridates the Great--decided he had had enough of Roman influence in his region, of Roman meddling in his affairs, of the whole gamut of Roman arrogance and imperial pretensions. He vowed to destroy the Roman presence in the eastern lands that he felt should be his to dominate. He waited patiently until his western nemesis became preoccupied with a bitter civil conflict upon the Italian peninsula, and then he struck with a force and vengeance characteristic cultural wars.
Mithridates of Pontus is removed from us by a couple thousand years of time, but the locus of his kingdom is ...