Roman conquest of macedon

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Smith continues that after the Second Punic War Rome fielded standing armies, conquering Macedon and usually defeating Greek, Syrian, and Egyptian militias, while noting limitations in conquering Parthia and Germany.

joined it, and, at the battle of Zama, composed the greater part of the troops of Annibal. The event of that day determined the fate of the two rival republics. From the end of the second Carthaginian war till the fall of the Roman republic, the armies of Rome were in every respect standing armies. The standing army of Macedon made some resistance to their arms. In the height of their grandeur, it cost them two grea…