The Mormon Wars were the Mithridatic wars

[Geiserik]

The next books of Alma and Helaman are full of wars from 100bC till
30bC and because we have shown before that events of the BoM actually
occurred in the Middle east, we think that all these horrible wars in
the BoM with sophisticated armies, generals and stratagems were
actually the 3 Mithridatic and the Jewish wars.
Therefore we will first let you read about Mithridates and than start
the comparison one by one


Mithridates VI Eupator (132-63): king of Pontus (120-63), enemy of
Rome in first century BCE.
Early reign


Mithridates VI was surnamed Eupator and Dionysus to distinguish him
from his who been king of Pontus,(northern Turkey) between 152/151
and
120 and was allied to Rome, which he supported during the Third Punic
War (149-146).


With this alliance, Mithridates V could expand the power of Pontus
from
the shores of the Black Sea to central Anatolia, where he fought
against Cappadocia and forced the Paphlagonia ruler to bequeath
their
realm to Pontus. His capital Sinope was home to a hellenistic court,
and Mithridates was willing to present himself in the Greek world as
champion of Hellenism in Anatolia. In 120, he was murdered, and left
his kingdom to his wife, the Seleucid princess Laodice, and their
sons,
Mithridates 6 Eupator


The young king continued his father's expansionist policy. In
115/114,he crossed the Black Sea and intervened in a conflict between
the hellenistic kingdom at the Crimea (the "Bosporan kingdom") and
its
northern neighbor, the Scythians. The result of this intervention was
that the Crimea was added to Pontus and a large part of the northern
shore of the Black Sea became Mithridates' protectorate.
(unquote)


(See my previous entry identifying Mithridates with king Mosiah And
the
unification of the Lands Nephi and Zarahemlah)


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New successes were to come. Paphlagonia was finally inherited and
shared with the king of Bithynia, In 104/103, Colchis (modern
Georgia)
was added and not much later, parts of western Armenia were conquered
as well.


Until now, the Roman Senate had not been really interested: after
all,
Anatolia was far away and besides Rome was involved in wars against
the
Numidian king and against the Germanic tribes of the Cimbri and
Teutones. However, the conquest of Paphlagonia was not acceptable to
the Senate, and Mithridates 6 had had to evacuate the countries he
had
seized.


Mithridates was not deterred. Almost immediately, in 101, he
intervened
in Cappadocia and Galatia (in central Anatolia), but again, the
Romans
were not happy with this state of affairs, and their praetor Lucius
Cornelius Sulla put a new king on the Cappadocian throne.


Both men were to play a role in the next quarter of a century: Sulla
became Mithridates' nemesis. The conflict with Rome that was to last
for the rest of Mithridates' life. War became inevitable in 94, when
Nicomedes III of Bithynia died.The Romans feared that Mithridates,
whose empire consisted now of all countries surrounding the Black
Sea,
would become too powerful if a puppet would be king in Bithynia.


In 90, the Senate sent Manius Aquilius. The Roman leader also urged
Nicomedes to raid Pontus thinking that Mithridates would understand
the
lesson. However, the king of Pontus, learning that the Romans were
now
also involved in a civil war against their Italian allies, decided to
retaliate, and in 89, war broke out.