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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 2485331, member: 42773&quot;]Lol, love the graphic! Well, it depends on the period. Before they were a sedentary empire, they were largely independent pastoral nomads, but variously under the authority of the Ptolemaics and Seleucids whenever they moved in their territories. From the period of Aretas III, 1st century BC, Rome considered them a client kingdom, but that was Rome&#039;s idea. The Nabataeans certainly didn&#039;t confront Rome in any substantial ways, but they were largely independent. However, over the next two centuries, they embraced Roman culture to such an extent, that when the last king (Malichus II) died, they put up no resistance to becoming a Roman province under Trajan. It must have felt like a natural consequence to most Nabataeans.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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