11-29-2006, 11:28 PM
There was several reasons:
1. under the ruling of Trajan, Rome was in her golden age, her army was very powerful, and Trajian
himself was an excellent generals
2. Pathia was in her low ebb, at her east border, the war between Pathia and Kushan Empire had last
more than 100 years, and in the first century, Pathia was repeatly defeated by Kushan suffered huge
losses from both manpower and land, Pathia also had to fight Central Asia Normandic tribes who would raid
their East regions every year, Pathia was exhausted
3. there was a civil war in the Parthia which lasted more than 10 years when Trajan invaded, Trajan only
need to fight the west part of Pathia
4. the power of Parthia king was already in decline, many of his Lords simply ignored king's order,
this was the reason Parthian failed to field an army agains Roman when Trajan invaded, Parthian king himself had
no army ! and only after Roman tried to convert western Parthian to a Roman province, then Parthian
rose in mass
1. under the ruling of Trajan, Rome was in her golden age, her army was very powerful, and Trajian
himself was an excellent generals
2. Pathia was in her low ebb, at her east border, the war between Pathia and Kushan Empire had last
more than 100 years, and in the first century, Pathia was repeatly defeated by Kushan suffered huge
losses from both manpower and land, Pathia also had to fight Central Asia Normandic tribes who would raid
their East regions every year, Pathia was exhausted
3. there was a civil war in the Parthia which lasted more than 10 years when Trajan invaded, Trajan only
need to fight the west part of Pathia
4. the power of Parthia king was already in decline, many of his Lords simply ignored king's order,
this was the reason Parthian failed to field an army agains Roman when Trajan invaded, Parthian king himself had
no army ! and only after Roman tried to convert western Parthian to a Roman province, then Parthian
rose in mass
