ocr: they consolidated their position in north- western Arabia and also in southern Palestine, where many important Nabataean cities were to rise. The territorial expansion brought with it concomitant perils. Ofthese the greatest was the antagonism of Rome, which in the person of Pompey was rapidly becoming the most important force in the East. Pompey's settlement of64 B.C. was not so hard for the Nabataeans as it was for their Jewish neighbors in Palestine, and the Nabataeans were left in control of both their territory and the all-important trade. But at the same time, the rulers of Petra- -whose ...
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