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The Roman puppet state of Nicomedia underwent an anti-Roman coup, and allied with Pontus was able to block Roman military efforts in the region, which led to a focus on the Rhine frontier and, in the long run, the pacification/Romanization of Germanic peoples and the unification of the subcontinent as a prime Roman mission. This state would become known as Mysia. Camnascirea comes from the name Kamnaskires, the Parthian satrap of Elam. A descendant of his would lead a successful revolt in the 1st century BCE which unseated the Arsacid kings and absorbed Seleucid remnants to forge a new order in West Asia styling itself as a revival of old Haltamti; becoming known to history as the Fifth Elamite Empire.
Athens revolted against Roman occupation in 88 BCE after Roman soldiers began looting and General Sulla's plan of eradication was found out. The city's democracy was re-instituted and a league with Corinth and Sparta, which had been independent since the Romans broke it off from the Achaean League but had since grown sour with their influence, ousted the Romans from most of southern Greece while Thebes remained independent under Roman suzerainty. The Romans had plans to put all of Greece under allied Theban domination, but the Athenian-Corinthian alliance continued to maintain independence with the help of Mysian and Elamite reinforcements, permanently containing Roman expansion into the Balkans.
In China, Wáng Mǎng succeeded in crushing a major rebellion in 12 CE with the help of his personally loyal armed forces. He subsequently was able to fully institute the well-field system, his land redistribution campaigns, and the abolition of slavery. The subsequent annihilation of much of the former imperial family consolidated the new emperor's control over the country. With the nobility silenced, he could then go about implementing his income tax and this combined with state seizure of liquor, salt, and iron industry contributed to economic development. He would be succeeded in 20 CE by Crown Prince Wáng Lín with the era of Yuánānguó (beginning a filial tradition of Xīn emperors using three characters in their first era), who would ally the country with the Turks against the Xiānbēi, saving the country from a massive invasion at the Battle of Liángzhōu and pulling Xīn out of many of its inherited entanglements in Korea and the Western Regions, beginning an era of internal improvement preferred over foreign expansion.
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