establishing a number of client kingdoms in Asia Minor.

Starting in 88 BC in the aftermath of the Asiatic Vespers, the first war was conducted by Lucius Cornelius Sulla, alongside and independent of Marian generals also assigned to the war. They were mainly in Greece and mostly concluded in 85 BC with the Treaty of Dardanos, expelling Mithridates from the Aegean and forcing him to give up occupied territories