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Fourth Macedonian War
Fourth Macedonian War
For years, after the Third Macedonian war, Greece was a peaceful nation. These peace-years was later ended by an uprising in Macedon led by a man named Andriscus, who claimed to be a son of Perseus (Philip V’s son who failed largely during the Third Macedonian war). As a response, Rome once again dispatched its legions in Greece and thoroughly ended the rebellion. What’s different this time was Rome didn’t actually withdraw from the region after the battle and formed a Roman province in the losing kingdom. The move officially established their first permanent foothold of Rome in the Greek territory.
This move angered the remaining free Greek city-states (members of the Archaen League) and they rose up against the newly established Roman presence in Greece. Rome, having established military supremacy along the eastern Europe, easily defeated the league. Some scholars view this as a suicidal war.
Rome probably grew tired of these little war attempts by the Macedon and formally ended the series of Macedonian wars by utterly destroying the ancient city of Corinth in 146 BC, the same year that Carthage was destroyed. The war also resulted to the end of Greek independence, with the remaining free territories becoming provinces of Rome. The war officially declared Rome, while still a republic, an empire throughout the western and central Mediterranean.