Trajan's War of Conquest

In one 14 trajan easily dismantled the armenian defense force and over through the offending armenian king, who would later die in roman custody. The emperor, though, had no plans to place his own puppet on the throne. Instead, he declared his intention to formally annex the kingdom and reorganize it as a roman province. By one 16, the romans already contrl old enough territory to organize a new province between the tigris and euphrates rivers that trajan dubbed mesopotamia. Trajan himself gathered a fleet and set sail with the rest of the legions down the euphrates river. But putting into port in cilicia, his body finally gave