<Li> 71 BC--Returns to Italy and participates in the suppression of a slave rebellion led by Spartacus; second triumph </Li> <Li> 70 BC--First consulship (with M. Licinius Crassus) </Li> <Li> 67 BC--Defeats the pirates and goes to Asia province </Li> <Li> 66--61 BC--Defeats King Mithridates of Pontus; end of the Third Mithridatic War </Li>

After which contest did rome become the sole major power of the mediterranean