Rome vs Persia: an unwinnable fight
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The Sasanian Empire and the Parthian Empire
Ancient warfare did tend to be extremely nasty but it is limited and both empires gain they gain economically through trade with each other. The Romans do station quite a lot of troops in their eastern empire though it's always hard to balance how far these troops are there. It's much easier to negotiate with a big power that's stable and that is more like you in many ways than a lot of the other smaller communities out there in Ayanae, Europe for instance or on your borders in North Africa.
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