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What led Mithridates to start the Third Mithridatic War?
a. The death of Nicomedes of Bithynia
b. Knowledge that the Romans were busy with their own Social War.
c. The mutiny of Lucullus' troops
d. Nicomedes' invasion of Pontus and blockage of Black Sea ports to Pontic ships.

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