Sack of Seleucia (165)

Target entity: Sack of Seleucia (165)
Context triple: [Roman–Parthian War of 161–166, notableBattle, Sack of Seleucia (165)]

• A. Siege of Palmyra (272)
  The Siege of Palmyra (272) was a Roman military campaign under Emperor Aurelian that recaptured the city of Palmyra and effectively ended the power of Queen Zenobia’s Palmyrene Empire.
• B. Siege of Samaria
  The Siege of Samaria was the decisive Assyrian military campaign in 722 BCE that led to the fall of the capital of the northern Kingdom of Israel and the exile of much of its population.
• C. Siege of Bethar
  The Siege of Bethar was the climactic Roman assault in 135 CE that crushed the Bar Kokhba Revolt and marked the effective end of large-scale Jewish resistance to Roman rule in Judea.
• D. Roman–Palmyrene War
  The Roman–Palmyrene War was a 3rd-century conflict in which the Roman Empire fought to suppress the breakaway Palmyrene Empire led by Queen Zenobia and restore imperial control over the Eastern provinces.
• E. Siege of Nicomedia
  The Siege of Nicomedia was an early 14th-century Ottoman campaign that captured the important Byzantine city of Nicomedia, marking a key step in the Ottoman expansion into northwestern Anatolia.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: Sack of Seleucia (165)
Target entity description: The Sack of Seleucia (165) was a devastating Roman assault and looting of the major Mesopotamian city of Seleucia on the Tigris during Lucius Verus’s eastern campaign, contributing to the city’s decline and the wider destabilization of the Parthian Empire.

• A. Siege of Palmyra (272)
  The Siege of Palmyra (272) was a Roman military campaign under Emperor Aurelian that recaptured the city of Palmyra and effectively ended the power of Queen Zenobia’s Palmyrene Empire.
• B. Siege of Samaria
  The Siege of Samaria was the decisive Assyrian military campaign in 722 BCE that led to the fall of the capital of the northern Kingdom of Israel and the exile of much of its population.
• C. Siege of Bethar
  The Siege of Bethar was the climactic Roman assault in 135 CE that crushed the Bar Kokhba Revolt and marked the effective end of large-scale Jewish resistance to Roman rule in Judea.
• D. Roman–Palmyrene War
  The Roman–Palmyrene War was a 3rd-century conflict in which the Roman Empire fought to suppress the breakaway Palmyrene Empire led by Queen Zenobia and restore imperial control over the Eastern provinces.
• E. Siege of Nicomedia
  The Siege of Nicomedia was an early 14th-century Ottoman campaign that captured the important Byzantine city of Nicomedia, marking a key step in the Ottoman expansion into northwestern Anatolia.
• F. None of above. chosen