Watch Decisive Battles The Ancient World online: Episode 7 Battle of Carhae (53BC) (Crassus)

Although he may have been the richest man in Rome, Crassus was the poor relation in the First Triumvirate. He needed military laurels to raise him onto the level of Pompey and Caesar, and he chose to try and get them in Parthia. His vanity cost the lives of seven legions, his son, and his own head. The Roman force was wiped out in the desert and the prestige lost that day would not be restored until the time of Augustus.

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