WI Roman Republic annexed Egypt in 80 BC?

[Lysandros Aikiedes]

With a concentrated Roman presence in the east as early as 80 BCE, what use would Judea or Galilee be if they don't serve as Rome-sponsored buffer-states?

 

[Don_Giorgio]

With a concentrated Roman presence in the east as early as 80 BCE, what use would Judea or Galilee be if they don't serve as Rome-sponsored buffer-states?

I guess that they wouldnt have any significant use... except as a place of punishment for bad governors and bad soldiers...

 

[Lysandros Aikiedes]

I guess that they wouldnt have any significant use... except as a place of punishment for bad governors and bad soldiers...

So then, the Sanhedrin or the kings may not have been useful to the Roman occupiers, and the Kingdom of Judea would suffer the same fate as OTL Dacia?

 

[Don_Giorgio]

So then, the Sanhedrin or the kings may not have been useful to the Roman occupiers, and the Kingdom of Judea would suffer the same fate as OTL Dacia?

Well... Romans could retain the Sanhedrin or appoint some nominal Kings to Judaea only to appease the rebelious people there

 

[Lysandros Aikiedes]

Well... Romans could retain the Sanhedrin or appoint some nominal Kings to Judaea only to appease the rebelious people there

If the Romans are already close enough to Mesopotamia, would "appeasing" the local Judean population be all that important? If Jerusalem is sacked, its pretty much over for Judeans. They only tolerated them for the first couple of hundreds IOTL because they were on the frontier, and could have potentially called upon the help of the Parthians.