Mithradates VI of Pontus: Rome's Greatest Enemy in the East (120–63 BCE)

120 BCE · Amasya, Türkiye · political

Mithradates VI transformed a small Black Sea kingdom into a regional power; he was said to speak 22 languages and to have taken small daily doses of poison in order to build up immunity (mithridate); he pressed Rome hard in three major wars.

| The most tenacious opposition Rome faced in its conquest of Anatolia, and the origin of the concept of immunity through poison (mithridatism).

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What was Mithradates VI of Pontus: Rome's Greatest Enemy in the East (120–63 BCE)?
Mithradates VI transformed a small Black Sea kingdom into a regional power; he was said to speak 22 languages and to have taken small daily doses of poison in order to build up immunity (mithridate); he pressed Rome hard in three major wars.
When did Mithradates VI of Pontus: Rome's Greatest Enemy in the East (120–63 BCE) happen?
120 BCE
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Amasya, Türkiye