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class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#209_BC"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.1</span> <span>209 BC</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-209_BC-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-By_place" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#By_place"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.1.1</span> <span>By place</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-By_place-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Roman_Republic" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Roman_Republic"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.1.1.1</span> <span>Roman Republic</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Roman_Republic-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Seleucid_Empire" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Seleucid_Empire"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.1.1.2</span> <span>Seleucid Empire</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Seleucid_Empire-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Greece" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Greece"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.1.1.3</span> <span>Greece</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Greece-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-China" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#China"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.1.1.4</span> <span>China</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-China-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Central_Asia" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Central_Asia"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.1.1.5</span> <span>Central Asia</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Central_Asia-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-208_BC" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#208_BC"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.2</span> <span>208 BC</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-208_BC-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-By_place_2" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#By_place_2"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.2.1</span> <span>By place</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-By_place_2-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Roman_Republic_2" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Roman_Republic_2"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.2.1.1</span> <span>Roman Republic</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Roman_Republic_2-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Seleucid_Empire_2" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Seleucid_Empire_2"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.2.1.2</span> <span>Seleucid Empire</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Seleucid_Empire_2-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-China_2" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#China_2"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.2.1.3</span> <span>China</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-China_2-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-207_BC" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#207_BC"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.3</span> <span>207 BC</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-207_BC-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-By_place_3" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#By_place_3"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.3.1</span> <span>By place</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-By_place_3-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Roman_Republic_3" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Roman_Republic_3"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.3.1.1</span> <span>Roman Republic</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Roman_Republic_3-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Greece_2" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Greece_2"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.3.1.2</span> <span>Greece</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Greece_2-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Vietnam" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Vietnam"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.3.1.3</span> <span>Vietnam</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Vietnam-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-China_3" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#China_3"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.3.1.4</span> <span>China</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-China_3-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-206_BC" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#206_BC"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.4</span> <span>206 BC</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-206_BC-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-By_place_4" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#By_place_4"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.4.1</span> <span>By place</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-By_place_4-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Roman_Republic_4" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Roman_Republic_4"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.4.1.1</span> <span>Roman Republic</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Roman_Republic_4-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Carthage" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Carthage"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.4.1.2</span> <span>Carthage</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Carthage-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Persia" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Persia"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.4.1.3</span> <span>Persia</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Persia-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Greece_3" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Greece_3"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.4.1.4</span> <span>Greece</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Greece_3-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-China_4" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#China_4"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.4.1.5</span> <span>China</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-China_4-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-205_BC" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#205_BC"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.5</span> <span>205 BC</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-205_BC-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-By_place_5" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#By_place_5"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.5.1</span> <span>By place</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-By_place_5-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Seleucid_Empire_3" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Seleucid_Empire_3"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.5.1.1</span> <span>Seleucid Empire</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Seleucid_Empire_3-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Greece_4" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Greece_4"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.5.1.2</span> <span>Greece</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Greece_4-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Roman_Republic_5" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Roman_Republic_5"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.5.1.3</span> <span>Roman Republic</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Roman_Republic_5-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Egypt" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Egypt"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.5.1.4</span> <span>Egypt</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Egypt-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-China_5" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#China_5"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.5.1.5</span> <span>China</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-China_5-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Northern_Asia" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Northern_Asia"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.5.1.6</span> <span>Northern Asia</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Northern_Asia-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-204_BC" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#204_BC"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.6</span> <span>204 BC</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-204_BC-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-By_place_6" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#By_place_6"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.6.1</span> <span>By place</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-By_place_6-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Carthage_2" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Carthage_2"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.6.1.1</span> <span>Carthage</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Carthage_2-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Egypt_2" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Egypt_2"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.6.1.2</span> <span>Egypt</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Egypt_2-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Roman_Republic_6" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Roman_Republic_6"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.6.1.3</span> <span>Roman Republic</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Roman_Republic_6-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Seleucid_Empire_4" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Seleucid_Empire_4"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.6.1.4</span> <span>Seleucid Empire</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Seleucid_Empire_4-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-China_6" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#China_6"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.6.1.5</span> <span>China</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-China_6-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-203_BC" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#203_BC"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.7</span> <span>203 BC</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-203_BC-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-By_place_7" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#By_place_7"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.7.1</span> <span>By place</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-By_place_7-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Carthage_3" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Carthage_3"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.7.1.1</span> <span>Carthage</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Carthage_3-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-China_7" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#China_7"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.7.1.2</span> <span>China</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-China_7-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-202_BC" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#202_BC"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.8</span> <span>202 BC</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-202_BC-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-By_place_8" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#By_place_8"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.8.1</span> <span>By place</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-By_place_8-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Carthage_4" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Carthage_4"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.8.1.1</span> <span>Carthage</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Carthage_4-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Roman_Republic_7" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Roman_Republic_7"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.8.1.2</span> <span>Roman Republic</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Roman_Republic_7-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Egypt_3" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Egypt_3"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.8.1.3</span> <span>Egypt</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Egypt_3-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-China_8" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#China_8"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.8.1.4</span> <span>China</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-China_8-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-201_BC" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#201_BC"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.9</span> <span>201 BC</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-201_BC-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-By_place_9" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#By_place_9"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.9.1</span> <span>By place</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-By_place_9-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Carthage_5" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Carthage_5"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.9.1.1</span> <span>Carthage</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Carthage_5-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Roman_Republic_8" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Roman_Republic_8"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.9.1.2</span> <span>Roman Republic</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Roman_Republic_8-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Greece_5" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Greece_5"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.9.1.3</span> <span>Greece</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Greece_5-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-China_9" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#China_9"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.9.1.4</span> <span>China</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-China_9-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-200_BC" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#200_BC"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.10</span> <span>200 BC</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-200_BC-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-By_place_10" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#By_place_10"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.10.1</span> <span>By place</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-By_place_10-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Seleucid_Empire_5" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Seleucid_Empire_5"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.10.1.1</span> <span>Seleucid Empire</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Seleucid_Empire_5-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Greece_6" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Greece_6"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.10.1.2</span> <span>Greece</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Greece_6-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Roman_Republic_9" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Roman_Republic_9"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.10.1.3</span> <span>Roman Republic</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Roman_Republic_9-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Bactria" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Bactria"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.10.1.4</span> <span>Bactria</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Bactria-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-South_America" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#South_America"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.10.1.5</span> <span>South America</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-South_America-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-China_10" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#China_10"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.10.1.6</span> <span>China</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-China_10-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-By_topic" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#By_topic"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.10.2</span> <span>By topic</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-By_topic-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Art" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Art"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.10.2.1</span> <span>Art</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Art-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Astronomy" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Astronomy"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.10.2.2</span> <span>Astronomy</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Astronomy-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> 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Chr. – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="200er v. Chr." data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/200._aastad_eKr" title="200. aastad eKr – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="200. aastad eKr" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%C3%B1os_200_a._C." title="Años 200 a. C. – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Años 200 a. C." data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/K.a._200eko_hamarkada" title="K.a. 200eko hamarkada – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="K.a. 200eko hamarkada" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%87%D9%87_%DB%B2%DB%B0%DB%B0_(%D9%BE%DB%8C%D8%B4_%D8%A7%D8%B2_%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AF)" title="دهه ۲۰۰ (پیش از میلاد) – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="دهه ۲۰۰ (پیش از میلاد)" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fo mw-list-item"><a href="https://fo.wikipedia.org/wiki/200-%C3%A1rini_f.Kr." title="200-árini f.Kr. – Faroese" lang="fo" hreflang="fo" data-title="200-árini f.Kr." data-language-autonym="Føroyskt" data-language-local-name="Faroese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Føroyskt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann%C3%A9es_200_av._J.-C." title="Années 200 av. J.-C. – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Années 200 av. J.-C." data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/200id%C3%AD_RC" title="200idí RC – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="200idí RC" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9cada_de_-200" title="Década de -200 – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Década de -200" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/200-ih_pr._Kr." title="200-ih pr. Kr. – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="200-ih pr. Kr." data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yari_200a_aK" title="Yari 200a aK – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Yari 200a aK" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anni_200_a.C." title="Anni 200 a.C. – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Anni 200 a.C." data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/209%E2%80%93200_%D7%9C%D7%A4%D7%A0%D7%94%22%D7%A1" title="209–200 לפנה"ס – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="209–200 לפנה"ס" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miaka_ya_200_KK" title="Miaka ya 200 KK – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Miaka ya 200 KK" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lij mw-list-item"><a href="https://lij.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anni_200_a.C." title="Anni 200 a.C. – Ligurian" lang="lij" hreflang="lij" data-title="Anni 200 a.C." data-language-autonym="Ligure" data-language-local-name="Ligurian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ligure</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._e._200-as_%C3%A9vek" title="I. e. 200-as évek – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="I. e. 200-as évek" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/200-%D1%82%D0%B8_%D0%BF.%D0%BD.%D0%B5." title="200-ти п.н.е. – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="200-ти п.н.е." data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%87.%E0%A4%B8.%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%82.%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%87_%E0%A5%A8%E0%A5%A6%E0%A5%A6_%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%87_%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%95" title="इ.स.पू.चे २०० चे दशक – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="इ.स.पू.चे २०० चे दशक" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मराठी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xmf mw-list-item"><a href="https://xmf.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%AF%E1%83%95._%E1%83%AC._200-%E1%83%98%E1%83%90%E1%83%9C%E1%83%94%E1%83%A4%E1%83%98" title="ჯვ. წ. 200-იანეფი – Mingrelian" lang="xmf" hreflang="xmf" data-title="ჯვ. წ. 200-იანეფი" data-language-autonym="მარგალური" data-language-local-name="Mingrelian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>მარგალური</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/200-an_SM" title="200-an SM – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="200-an SM" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%B4%80%E5%85%83%E5%89%8D200%E5%B9%B4%E4%BB%A3" title="紀元前200年代 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="紀元前200年代" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/200-%C3%A5rene_f.Kr." title="200-årene f.Kr. – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="200-årene f.Kr." data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mil._av._200-lar" title="Mil. av. 200-lar – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Mil. av. 200-lar" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9cada_de_200_a.C." title="Década de 200 a.C. – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Década de 200 a.C." data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anii_200_%C3%AE.Hr." title="Anii 200 î.Hr. – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Anii 200 î.Hr." data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-qu mw-list-item"><a href="https://qu.wikipedia.org/wiki/200_watakuna_k%C3%B1" title="200 watakuna kñ – Quechua" lang="qu" hreflang="qu" data-title="200 watakuna kñ" data-language-autonym="Runa Simi" data-language-local-name="Quechua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Runa Simi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/200-%D0%B5_%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B4%D1%8B_%D0%B4%D0%BE_%D0%BD._%D1%8D." title="200-е годы до н. э. – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="200-е годы до н. э." data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/0._roky_3._storo%C4%8Dia_pred_Kr." title="0. roky 3. storočia pred Kr. – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="0. roky 3. storočia pred Kr." data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/200._pr._n._%C5%A1t." title="200. pr. n. št. – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="200. pr. n. št." data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/200-%D0%B5_%D0%BF._%D0%BD._%D0%B5." title="200-е п. н. е. – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="200-е п. н. е." data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/200-e_pne." title="200-e pne. – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="200-e pne." data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-su mw-list-item"><a href="https://su.wikipedia.org/wiki/200-an_SM" title="200-an SM – Sundanese" lang="su" hreflang="su" data-title="200-an SM" data-language-autonym="Sunda" data-language-local-name="Sundanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sunda</span></a></li><li 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(decennium) – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="200-talet f.Kr. 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navigation-not-searchable relarticle mainarticle selfreference noprint">This section is <a href="/wiki/Help:Transclusion" title="Help:Transclusion">transcluded</a> from <a href="/wiki/209_BC" title="209 BC">209 BC</a>. <span class="plainlinks" style="font-style: normal; font-size:85%;">(<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=209_BC&action=edit">edit</a> | <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=209_BC&action=history">history</a>)</span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="By_place"> By place</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=209_BC&action=edit&section=T-1" title="Edit section: By place"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Roman_Republic"> Roman Republic</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=209_BC&action=edit&section=T-2" title="Edit section: Roman Republic"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Roman_Republic" title="Roman Republic">Romans</a> under <a href="/wiki/Quintus_Fabius_Maximus_Verrucosus" title="Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus">Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus</a> capture <a href="/wiki/Taranto" title="Taranto">Tarentum</a> (modern <a href="/wiki/Taranto" title="Taranto">Taranto</a>), which the <a href="/wiki/Carthage" title="Carthage">Carthaginian</a> general <a href="/wiki/Hannibal" title="Hannibal">Hannibal</a> has held for three years.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Canusium" title="Battle of Canusium">Battle of Canusium</a> is fought between Hannibal's Carthaginian army and a Roman force led by <a href="/wiki/Marcus_Claudius_Marcellus" title="Marcus Claudius Marcellus">Marcus Claudius Marcellus</a>. The battle is indecisive.</li> <li>From his <a href="/wiki/Headquarters" title="Headquarters">headquarters</a> at <a href="/wiki/Tarraco" title="Tarraco">Tarraco</a> (<a href="/wiki/Tarragona" title="Tarragona">Tarragona</a>), <a href="/wiki/Scipio_Africanus" title="Scipio Africanus">Publius Cornelius Scipio</a>, the Roman commander in <a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a>, launches a combined military and naval assault on the Carthaginian headquarters at <a href="/wiki/Carthago_Nova" class="mw-redirect" title="Carthago Nova">Carthago Nova</a> (modern-day <a href="/wiki/Cartagena,_Spain" title="Cartagena, Spain">Cartagena</a>). He successfully besieges and captures the city. In capturing this city, Scipio gains access to copious stores and supplies, Spanish hostages, the local silver mines, a splendid <a href="/wiki/Harbour" class="mw-redirect" title="Harbour">harbour</a> and a base for an advance farther south.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Seleucid_Empire"> Seleucid Empire</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=209_BC&action=edit&section=T-3" title="Edit section: Seleucid Empire"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The King of the <a href="/wiki/Parthia" title="Parthia">Parthians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Arsaces_II" class="mw-redirect" title="Arsaces II">Arsaces II</a>, is attacked by the <a href="/wiki/Seleucid" class="mw-redirect" title="Seleucid">Seleucid</a> king <a href="/wiki/Antiochus_III_the_Great" title="Antiochus III the Great">Antiochus III</a>, who takes <a href="/wiki/Hecatompylos" class="mw-redirect" title="Hecatompylos">Hecatompylos</a> (southeast of the <a href="/wiki/Caspian_Sea" title="Caspian Sea">Caspian Sea</a>), the Arsacid capital and Syrinx in <a href="/wiki/Hyrcania" title="Hyrcania">Hyrcania</a>. Antiochus III defeats Arsaces II at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Mount_Labus" title="Battle of Mount Labus">Battle of Mount Labus</a> and then forces Arsaces II to enter into an alliance with the Seleucids.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Greece"> Greece</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=209_BC&action=edit&section=T-4" title="Edit section: Greece"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>As <a href="/wiki/Strategos" title="Strategos">strategos</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Achaea" title="Achaea">Achaeans</a>, the Greek general <a href="/wiki/Philopoemen" title="Philopoemen">Philopoemen</a> is responsible for turning the <a href="/wiki/Achaean_League" title="Achaean League">Achaean League</a> into an aggressive military power. He builds up the League's military capability. The Achaean League's army and cavalry under Philopoemen then defeat the Aetolians on the <a href="/wiki/Elean" class="mw-redirect" title="Elean">Elean</a> frontier.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="China"> China</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=209_BC&action=edit&section=T-5" title="Edit section: China"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jiao,_Lord_of_Wey" title="Jiao, Lord of Wey">Jiao, Lord of Wey</a> is deposed by Emperor <a href="/wiki/Qin_Er_Shi" title="Qin Er Shi">Qin Er Shi</a>, marking the end of the state of <a href="/wiki/Wey_(state)" title="Wey (state)">Wei</a></li> <li>In August, <a href="/wiki/Chen_Sheng" title="Chen Sheng">Chen Sheng</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wu_Guang" title="Wu Guang">Wu Guang</a> begin an uprising to oppose <a href="/wiki/Qin_dynasty" title="Qin dynasty">Qin</a></li> <li>The rebels restore the monarchies of <a href="/wiki/Chu_(state)" title="Chu (state)">Chu</a>, <a href="/wiki/Qi_(state)" title="Qi (state)">Qi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Yan_(state)" title="Yan (state)">Yan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Zhao_(state)" title="Zhao (state)">Zhao</a>, Wei and (in 208) <a href="/wiki/Han_(Warring_States)" title="Han (Warring States)">Han</a>.</li> <li>The Qin general <a href="/wiki/Zhang_Han_(Qin_dynasty)" title="Zhang Han (Qin dynasty)">Zhang Han</a> defeats an invasion of <a href="/wiki/Guanzhong" title="Guanzhong">Guanzhong</a> by the rebel general Zhou Wen.</li> <li>Wu Guang is killed by his own officers, and Zhang Han defeats Chen Sheng, who is killed by an attendant while in flight.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Having helped to conquer <a href="/wiki/Baiyue" title="Baiyue">Baiyue</a> in northern Vietnam and southern China for the <a href="/wiki/Qin_dynasty" title="Qin dynasty">Qin dynasty</a>, the general <a href="/wiki/Zhao_Tuo" title="Zhao Tuo">Zhao Tuo</a> uses the rebellions against the Qin to establish his own independent kingdom in <a href="/wiki/Nanyue" title="Nanyue">Nanyue</a>, and conquers the neighboring provinces of Guilin and Xiang. He declares himself King Wu of <a href="/wiki/Nanyue" title="Nanyue">Nanyue</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Central_Asia"> Central Asia</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=209_BC&action=edit&section=T-6" title="Edit section: Central Asia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Modu_Shanyu" class="mw-redirect" title="Modu Shanyu">Modun khaan</a> inherits <a href="/wiki/Toumen" class="mw-redirect" title="Toumen">Teoman's</a> <a href="/wiki/Xiongnu" title="Xiongnu">Hunnu</a> confederations and founds the <a href="/wiki/Xiongnu_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Xiongnu Empire">Xiongnu Empire</a> in <a href="/wiki/Mongolia_proper" class="mw-redirect" title="Mongolia proper">Mongolia proper</a>. Modu's forces push into Northern China, threatening the <a href="/wiki/Qin_dynasty" title="Qin dynasty">Qin Empire</a> and forcing them to further fortify the <a href="/wiki/Great_Wall_of_China" title="Great Wall of China">Great Wall</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="208_BC">208 BC</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Module:For_nowiki&action=edit&section=T-1" title="Edit section: 208 BC"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable relarticle mainarticle selfreference noprint">This section is <a href="/wiki/Help:Transclusion" title="Help:Transclusion">transcluded</a> from <a href="/wiki/208_BC" title="208 BC">208 BC</a>. <span class="plainlinks" style="font-style: normal; font-size:85%;">(<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=208_BC&action=edit">edit</a> | <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=208_BC&action=history">history</a>)</span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="By_place_2"> By place</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=208_BC&action=edit&section=T-1" title="Edit section: By place"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Roman_Republic_2"> Roman Republic</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=208_BC&action=edit&section=T-2" title="Edit section: Roman Republic"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Roman_Republic" title="Roman Republic">Romans</a> under <a href="/wiki/Scipio_Africanus" title="Scipio Africanus">Publius Cornelius Scipio</a> defeat the <a href="/wiki/Carthage" title="Carthage">Carthaginians</a> under their commander <a href="/wiki/Hasdrubal_Barca" title="Hasdrubal Barca">Hasdrubal Barca</a> at <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Baecula" title="Battle of Baecula">Baecula</a> (<a href="/wiki/Bail%C3%A9n" title="Bailén">Bailen</a>) in <a href="/wiki/Baetica" class="mw-redirect" title="Baetica">Baetica</a>. As a result, Hasdrubal Barca decides to cross the <a href="/wiki/Pyrenees" title="Pyrenees">Pyrenees</a> with his remaining troops into <a href="/wiki/Transalpine_Gaul" class="mw-redirect" title="Transalpine Gaul">Transalpine Gaul</a>, with the intention of joining his brother <a href="/wiki/Hannibal" title="Hannibal">Hannibal</a> in <a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy">Italy</a>.</li> <li>The Roman general <a href="/wiki/Marcus_Claudius_Marcellus" title="Marcus Claudius Marcellus">Marcus Claudius Marcellus</a> is killed in battle while fighting Hannibal near <a href="/wiki/Venusia" class="mw-redirect" title="Venusia">Venusia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Apulia" title="Apulia">Apulia</a>.</li> <li>Hannibal destroys a Roman force at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Petelia" title="Battle of Petelia">Battle of Petelia</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Seleucid_Empire_2"> Seleucid Empire</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=208_BC&action=edit&section=T-3" title="Edit section: Seleucid Empire"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Antiochus_III_the_Great" title="Antiochus III the Great">Antiochus III</a> advances into <a href="/wiki/Bactria" title="Bactria">Bactria</a>, which is ruled by the <a href="/wiki/Greco-Bactrian" class="mw-redirect" title="Greco-Bactrian">Greco-Bactrian</a> king <a href="/wiki/Euthydemus_I" title="Euthydemus I">Euthydemus I</a>, and defeats Euthydemus at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Arius" title="Battle of the Arius">Battle of the Arius</a>. After resisting a <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Bactra" title="Siege of Bactra">siege</a> of his capital <a href="/wiki/Bactra" class="mw-redirect" title="Bactra">Bactra</a> (<a href="/wiki/Balkh" title="Balkh">Balkh</a>) by the <a href="/wiki/Seleucid" class="mw-redirect" title="Seleucid">Seleucids</a>, Euthydemus obtains an honourable peace by which Antiochus promises Euthydemus' son Demetrius the hand of one of his daughters.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="China_2"> China</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=208_BC&action=edit&section=T-4" title="Edit section: China"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Zhang_Han_(Qin_dynasty)" title="Zhang Han (Qin dynasty)">Zhang Han</a> defeats and kills the rebel leader <a href="/wiki/Xiang_Liang" title="Xiang Liang">Xiang Liang</a> in the Battle of Dingtao.</li> <li>Qin Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Li_Si" title="Li Si">Li Si</a> is executed by <a href="/wiki/Qin_Er_Shi" title="Qin Er Shi">Qin Er Shi</a>, having been conspired against by the eunuch <a href="/wiki/Zhao_Gao" title="Zhao Gao">Zhao Gao</a>, who replaces him as Prime Minister.</li> <li>Zhang Han seizes the <a href="/wiki/Zhao_(state)" title="Zhao (state)">Zhao</a> capital Handan and besieges its king Zhao Xie in Julu.</li> <li>Xiang Liang's nephew <a href="/wiki/Xiang_Yu" title="Xiang Yu">Xiang Yu</a> seizes control of Liang's army.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="207_BC">207 BC</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Module:For_nowiki&action=edit&section=T-1" title="Edit section: 207 BC"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable relarticle mainarticle selfreference noprint">This section is <a href="/wiki/Help:Transclusion" title="Help:Transclusion">transcluded</a> from <a href="/wiki/207_BC" title="207 BC">207 BC</a>. <span class="plainlinks" style="font-style: normal; font-size:85%;">(<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=207_BC&action=edit">edit</a> | <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=207_BC&action=history">history</a>)</span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="By_place_3"> By place</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=207_BC&action=edit&section=T-1" title="Edit section: By place"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Roman_Republic_3"> Roman Republic</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=207_BC&action=edit&section=T-2" title="Edit section: Roman Republic"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Roman_Republic" title="Roman Republic">Roman</a> consul <a href="/wiki/Gaius_Claudius_Nero" title="Gaius Claudius Nero">Gaius Claudius Nero</a> fights an <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Grumentum" title="Battle of Grumentum">indecisive battle</a> with the <a href="/wiki/Carthage" title="Carthage">Carthaginian</a> general <a href="/wiki/Hannibal" title="Hannibal">Hannibal</a> at <a href="/wiki/Grumentum" title="Grumentum">Grumentum</a>. Nero is unable to stop Hannibal's advance into <a href="/wiki/Canusium" class="mw-redirect" title="Canusium">Canusium</a>. Nevertheless, he rapidly marches the elite parts of his <a href="/wiki/Army" title="Army">army</a> some one hundred kilometres north to reinforce the army of <a href="/wiki/Marcus_Livius_Salinator" title="Marcus Livius Salinator">Marcus Livius Salinator</a>.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Metaurus" title="Battle of the Metaurus">Battle of the Metaurus</a>, fought near the <a href="/wiki/Metaurus_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Metaurus River">Metaurus River</a> in <a href="/wiki/Umbria" title="Umbria">Umbria</a>, is a pivotal battle during the <a href="/wiki/Second_Punic_War" title="Second Punic War">Second Punic War</a> between Rome and Carthage. The Carthaginians are led by Hannibal's brother <a href="/wiki/Hasdrubal_Barca" title="Hasdrubal Barca">Hasdrubal Barca</a>, and the Roman armies are led by the consuls <a href="/wiki/Marcus_Livius_Salinator" title="Marcus Livius Salinator">Marcus Livius Salinator</a> and Gaius Claudius Nero. The Carthaginian army is defeated by the Romans and Hasdrubal is killed in the battle. This major loss by the Carthaginians ends Hannibal's hopes of success in Italy.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Greece_2"> Greece</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=207_BC&action=edit&section=T-3" title="Edit section: Greece"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The general leading the <a href="/wiki/Achaean_League" title="Achaean League">Achaean League</a>, <a href="/wiki/Philopoemen" title="Philopoemen">Philopoemen</a>, introduces heavier <a href="/wiki/Macedon" class="mw-redirect" title="Macedon">Macedonian</a> armour and <a href="/wiki/Phalanx_formation" class="mw-redirect" title="Phalanx formation">phalanx</a> tactics. His army then crushes the <a href="/wiki/Sparta" title="Sparta">Spartans</a> under the Spartan regent and general, <a href="/wiki/Machanidas" title="Machanidas">Machanidas</a>, in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Mantinea_(207_BC)" title="Battle of Mantinea (207 BC)">battle of Mantinea</a>. Machanidas is killed by Philopoemen during the battle.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nabis_of_Sparta" title="Nabis of Sparta">Nabis</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Syria" title="Syria">Syrian</a> sold into slavery, rises to power in Sparta and becomes regent of the young Spartan king, Pelops, following the death of Machanidas. Nabis soon overthrows Pelops, claiming to be a descendant of the <a href="/wiki/Eurypontid" class="mw-redirect" title="Eurypontid">Eurypontid</a> Spartan king <a href="/wiki/Demaratus" title="Demaratus">Demaratus</a>. Nabis then starts a social revolution which will lead to the freeing of all the <a href="/wiki/Helots" title="Helots">helots</a>, the destruction of the ruling <a href="/wiki/Oligarchy" title="Oligarchy">oligarchy</a>, the redistribution of land and the cancelling of debts.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Vietnam"> Vietnam</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=207_BC&action=edit&section=T-4" title="Edit section: Vietnam"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>When king <a href="/wiki/An_D%C6%B0%C6%A1ng_V%C6%B0%C6%A1ng" title="An Dương Vương">An Dương Vương</a> dies, so does his dynasty and the <a href="/wiki/Tri%E1%BB%87u_dynasty" title="Triệu dynasty">Triệu dynasty</a> and the kingdom of <a href="/wiki/Nanyue" title="Nanyue">Nam Việt</a> are established.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="China_3"> China</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=207_BC&action=edit&section=T-5" title="Edit section: China"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Chu_(state)" title="Chu (state)">Chu</a> rebel <a href="/wiki/Xiang_Yu" title="Xiang Yu">Xiang Yu</a> defeats the <a href="/wiki/Qin_(state)" title="Qin (state)">Qin</a> general <a href="/wiki/Zhang_Han_(Qin_dynasty)" title="Zhang Han (Qin dynasty)">Zhang Han</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Julu" title="Battle of Julu">Battle of Julu</a> and becomes the leader of the rebellion against the <a href="/wiki/Qin_dynasty" title="Qin dynasty">Qin dynasty</a>.</li> <li>Xiang Yu defeats Zhang Han in the Battle of the Yushui River. Zhang Han then surrenders to Xiang Yu.</li> <li>Emperor <a href="/wiki/Qin_Er_Shi" title="Qin Er Shi">Qin Er Shi</a> of the Qin dynasty is assassinated by Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Zhao_Gao" title="Zhao Gao">Zhao Gao</a>. He is replaced by his nephew <a href="/wiki/Ziying_of_Qin" title="Ziying of Qin">Ziying</a>, who in turn assassinates Zhao Gao. Ziying takes power as the king of Qin rather than as emperor.</li> <li>The Chu rebel <a href="/wiki/Liu_Bang" class="mw-redirect" title="Liu Bang">Liu Bang</a> invades <a href="/wiki/Guanzhong" title="Guanzhong">Guanzhong</a>. After another military defeat, Ziying surrenders to Liu, who then occupies the Qin capital <a href="/wiki/Xianyang" title="Xianyang">Xianyang</a>. This marks the end of the Qin dynasty.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="206_BC">206 BC</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Module:For_nowiki&action=edit&section=T-1" title="Edit section: 206 BC"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable relarticle mainarticle selfreference noprint">This section is <a href="/wiki/Help:Transclusion" title="Help:Transclusion">transcluded</a> from <a href="/wiki/206_BC" title="206 BC">206 BC</a>. <span class="plainlinks" style="font-style: normal; font-size:85%;">(<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=206_BC&action=edit">edit</a> | <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=206_BC&action=history">history</a>)</span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="By_place_4"> By place</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=206_BC&action=edit&section=T-1" title="Edit section: By place"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Roman_Republic_4"> Roman Republic</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=206_BC&action=edit&section=T-2" title="Edit section: Roman Republic"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>In the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Ilipa" title="Battle of Ilipa">Battle of Ilipa</a> (<a href="/wiki/Alcal%C3%A1_del_R%C3%ADo" title="Alcalá del Río">Alcalá del Río</a>, near <a href="/wiki/Seville" title="Seville">Seville</a>) in <a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Carthage" title="Ancient Carthage">Carthaginian</a> generals, <a href="/wiki/Mago_Barca" title="Mago Barca">Mago Barca</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hasdrubal_Gisco" title="Hasdrubal Gisco">Hasdrubal Gisco</a>, are defeated by the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Republic" title="Roman Republic">Roman</a> general <a href="/wiki/Scipio_Africanus" title="Scipio Africanus">Publius Cornelius Scipio</a>. Mago retreats to <a href="/wiki/C%C3%A1diz" title="Cádiz">Gades</a> (modern <a href="/wiki/C%C3%A1diz" title="Cádiz">Cádiz</a>) and then sails for the <a href="/wiki/Balearic_Islands" title="Balearic Islands">Balearic Islands</a>.</li> <li>The Roman general <a href="/wiki/Scipio_Africanus" title="Scipio Africanus">Publius Cornelius Scipio</a> secures Gades, thus making Roman control of Spain complete. With the effective withdrawal of the Carthaginians from Spain, <a href="/wiki/Hispania" title="Hispania">Hispania</a> becomes a <a href="/wiki/Roman_province" title="Roman province">Roman province</a>.</li> <li>The city of <a href="/wiki/Italica" title="Italica">Italica</a> (northwest of modern <a href="/wiki/Seville" title="Seville">Seville</a>, <a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a>) is founded by Scipio as a place to settle for the Roman soldiers wounded in the Battle of Ilipa.</li> <li>After having successfully driven the Carthaginians out of Spain, Scipio returns in triumph to Rome and is elected <a href="/wiki/Roman_consul" title="Roman consul">consul</a>. He then prepares to carry the war into Carthage's territory in North Africa.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Carthage"> Carthage</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=206_BC&action=edit&section=T-3" title="Edit section: Carthage"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Hasdrubal Gisco retreats to the coast and then crosses to North Africa, where he gives his daughter in marriage to <a href="/wiki/Syphax" title="Syphax">Syphax</a>, king of the <a href="/wiki/Numidia" title="Numidia">Numidian</a> <a href="/wiki/Masaesyli" title="Masaesyli">Masaesyli</a> tribe, to formalize their military alliance.</li> <li>After being an ally of Carthage and fighting with them, Numidian chieftain, <a href="/wiki/Masinissa" title="Masinissa">Masinissa</a> switches sides when the Carthaginians are driven from Spain and offers to assist Rome. Syphax expels his rival Masinissa and claims himself to be King of Numidia. The Romans support Masinissa's claim to the Numidian throne against Syphax, the pro-Carthaginian ruler of the Masaesyli tribe.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Persia"> Persia</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=206_BC&action=edit&section=T-4" title="Edit section: Persia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arsaces_II" class="mw-redirect" title="Arsaces II">Arsaces II</a>, king of the <a href="/wiki/Parthia" title="Parthia">Parthians</a>, loses territory in battles with <a href="/wiki/Euthydemus_I" title="Euthydemus I">Euthydemus I</a>, ruler of <a href="/wiki/Bactria" title="Bactria">Bactria</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antiochus_III_the_Great" title="Antiochus III the Great">Antiochus III</a> marches across the <a href="/wiki/Hindu_Kush" title="Hindu Kush">Hindu Kush</a> into the <a href="/wiki/Kabul" title="Kabul">Kabul</a> valley and renews his friendship with the <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">Indian</a> king <a href="/wiki/Sophagasenus" title="Sophagasenus">Sophagasenus</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Greece_3"> Greece</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=206_BC&action=edit&section=T-5" title="Edit section: Greece"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The war between <a href="/wiki/Macedon" class="mw-redirect" title="Macedon">Macedonia</a> and Rome drags on with no decisive advantage on either side. Rome's interest lies not in conquest, but in keeping Macedon, the Greek city-states and Greek political leagues continually divided and non-threatening.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philip_V_of_Macedon" title="Philip V of Macedon">Philip V of Macedon</a> is able to take advantage of Roman inactivity. After sacking Thermum, the religious and political centre of <a href="/wiki/Aetolia" title="Aetolia">Aetolia</a>, Philip is able to force the Aetolians to accept a peace treaty based on his terms.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="China_4"> China</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=206_BC&action=edit&section=T-6" title="Edit section: China"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>A period of civil war known as the <a href="/wiki/Chu-Han_contention" class="mw-redirect" title="Chu-Han contention">Chu-Han contention</a> begins.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Xiang_Yu" title="Xiang Yu">Xiang Yu</a> divides China in a power-sharing arrangement known as the <a href="/wiki/Eighteen_Kingdoms" title="Eighteen Kingdoms">Eighteen Kingdoms</a>, with himself the de facto supreme ruler as Hegemon-King of Western Chu.</li> <li>Xiang Yu appoints <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Yi_of_Chu" title="Emperor Yi of Chu">Huai II of Chu</a> as Emperor Yi of China, but he has him assassinated later in the year.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liu_Bang" class="mw-redirect" title="Liu Bang">Liu Bang</a>, as the newly appointed king of <a href="/wiki/Han_dynasty" title="Han dynasty">Hanzhong</a>, and his new General-in-Chief <a href="/wiki/Han_Xin" title="Han Xin">Han Xin</a>, invade <a href="/wiki/Guanzhong" title="Guanzhong">Guanzhong</a>, defeat the king of Yong, <a href="/wiki/Zhang_Han_(Qin_dynasty)" title="Zhang Han (Qin dynasty)">Zhang Han</a>, and conquer the lands of the <a href="/wiki/Three_Qins" title="Three Qins">Three Qins</a>, thus beginning hostilities with Xiang Yu.</li> <li>Liu Bang makes Yueyang his capital and begins to expand his realm into the <a href="/wiki/Zhongyuan" title="Zhongyuan">Central Plain</a>.</li> <li>Xiang Yu campaigns against a rebellion in <a href="/wiki/Qi_(state)" title="Qi (state)">Qi</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Jian" title="Jian">Jian</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dao_(Chinese_sword)" title="Dao (Chinese sword)">Dao</a> swords are created during this time (approximate date).</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="205_BC">205 BC</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Module:For_nowiki&action=edit&section=T-1" title="Edit section: 205 BC"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable relarticle mainarticle selfreference noprint">This section is <a href="/wiki/Help:Transclusion" title="Help:Transclusion">transcluded</a> from <a href="/wiki/205_BC" title="205 BC">205 BC</a>. <span class="plainlinks" style="font-style: normal; font-size:85%;">(<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=205_BC&action=edit">edit</a> | <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=205_BC&action=history">history</a>)</span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="By_place_5">By place</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=205_BC&action=edit&section=T-1" title="Edit section: By place"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Seleucid_Empire_3">Seleucid Empire</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=205_BC&action=edit&section=T-2" title="Edit section: Seleucid Empire"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Returning via the <a href="/wiki/Persia" class="mw-redirect" title="Persia">Persian</a> <a href="/wiki/Province" title="Province">provinces</a> of <a href="/wiki/Arachosia" title="Arachosia">Arachosia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Drangiana" title="Drangiana">Drangiana</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Carmania_(satrapy)" class="mw-redirect" title="Carmania (satrapy)">Carmania</a>, <a href="/wiki/Antiochus_III_the_Great" title="Antiochus III the Great">Antiochus III</a> arrives in <a href="/wiki/Persis" title="Persis">Persis</a>. He then leads a short expedition down the <a href="/wiki/Persian_Gulf" title="Persian Gulf">Persian Gulf</a> and receives <a href="/wiki/Tribute" title="Tribute">tribute</a> of 500 <a href="/wiki/Talent_(weight)" class="mw-redirect" title="Talent (weight)">talents</a> of silver from the <a href="/wiki/Citizenship" title="Citizenship">citizens</a> of <a href="/wiki/Gerrha" title="Gerrha">Gerrha</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Mercantile" class="mw-redirect" title="Mercantile">mercantile</a> <a href="/wiki/Sovereign_state" title="Sovereign state">state</a> on the west coast of the <a href="/wiki/Persian_Gulf" title="Persian Gulf">Persian Gulf</a>.</li> <li>Antiochus III returns from his eastern campaigns, after having defeated the <a href="/wiki/Bactria" title="Bactria">Bactrians</a> and subjugated the <a href="/wiki/Parthia" title="Parthia">Parthians</a> and thus being able to partly restore <a href="/wiki/Seleucid" class="mw-redirect" title="Seleucid">Seleucid</a> power in these provinces by crushing the revolting <a href="/wiki/Governor" title="Governor">governors</a> of <a href="/wiki/Medes" title="Medes">Media</a>, <a href="/wiki/Persia" class="mw-redirect" title="Persia">Persia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Anatolia" title="Anatolia">Anatolia</a>. Having established a system of <a href="/wiki/Vassal_state" title="Vassal state">vassal states</a> in the East, Antiochus now adopts the ancient <a href="/wiki/Achaemenid" class="mw-redirect" title="Achaemenid">Achaemenid</a> title of "great king", and the Greeks, comparing him to <a href="/wiki/Alexander_the_Great" title="Alexander the Great">Alexander the Great</a>, surname him "the Great", that is to say Antiochus III Megas.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Greece_4">Greece</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=205_BC&action=edit&section=T-3" title="Edit section: Greece"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Philip_V_of_Macedon" title="Philip V of Macedon">Philip V of Macedon</a> makes a temporary peace (the <a href="/wiki/Peace_of_Phoenice" class="mw-redirect" title="Peace of Phoenice">Peace of Phoenice</a>) with <a href="/wiki/Roman_Republic" title="Roman Republic">Rome</a> on favourable terms for <a href="/wiki/Macedon" class="mw-redirect" title="Macedon">Macedonia</a> ending the <a href="/wiki/First_Macedonian_War" title="First Macedonian War">First Macedonian War</a>. The treaty formally acknowledges the favourable position of Macedonia, including their capture of <a href="/wiki/Illyria" title="Illyria">Illyria</a>, but in return Philip effectively repudiates his alliance with <a href="/wiki/Hannibal" title="Hannibal">Hannibal</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>After the peace, the <a href="/wiki/Sparta" title="Sparta">Spartan</a> king, <a href="/wiki/Nabis_of_Sparta" title="Nabis of Sparta">Nabis</a>, goes to war with the <a href="/wiki/Achaean_League" title="Achaean League">Achaean League</a>. The Achaean general <a href="/wiki/Philopoemen" title="Philopoemen">Philopoemen</a> expels Nabis of Sparta from <a href="/wiki/Messene" title="Messene">Messene</a>.</li> <li>The Peace of Phoenice prohibits Philip from expanding westward into Illyria or the <a href="/wiki/Adriatic_Sea" title="Adriatic Sea">Adriatic Sea</a>, so the king turns his attentions eastwards to the <a href="/wiki/Aegean_Sea" title="Aegean Sea">Aegean Sea</a>, where he starts to build a large fleet. After concluding the <a href="/wiki/First_Macedonian_War" title="First Macedonian War">First Macedonian War</a>, Philip of Macedon, seeing his chance to defeat <a href="/wiki/Rhodes" title="Rhodes">Rhodes</a>, forms an alliance with <a href="/wiki/Aetolia" title="Aetolia">Aetolian</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sparta" title="Sparta">Spartan</a> pirates who begin raiding Rhodian ships. The <a href="/wiki/Cretan_War_(205%E2%80%93200_BC)" title="Cretan War (205–200 BC)">Cretan War</a> begins between Philips' Macedonians, the <a href="/wiki/Aetolian_League" title="Aetolian League">Aetolian League</a>, several <a href="/wiki/Crete" title="Crete">Cretan</a> cities (of which <a href="/wiki/Olous" title="Olous">Olous</a> and Hierapytna are the most important) and Spartan pirates against the forces of Rhodes and later <a href="/wiki/Attalus_I_Soter" class="mw-redirect" title="Attalus I Soter">Attalus I</a> of <a href="/wiki/Pergamum" class="mw-redirect" title="Pergamum">Pergamum</a>, <a href="/wiki/Byzantium" title="Byzantium">Byzantium</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cyzicus" title="Cyzicus">Cyzicus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Athens" title="Athens">Athens</a> and <a href="/wiki/Knossos" title="Knossos">Knossos</a>.</li> <li>With the Rhodian fleet and economy suffering from the depredations of the pirates, Philip begins attacking the lands of Rhodes' allies in <a href="/wiki/Thrace" title="Thrace">Thrace</a> and around the <a href="/wiki/Sea_of_Marmara" title="Sea of Marmara">Sea of Marmara</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Roman_Republic_5">Roman Republic</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=205_BC&action=edit&section=T-4" title="Edit section: Roman Republic"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Scipio_Africanus" title="Scipio Africanus">Publius Cornelius Scipio</a> boldly determines to disregard <a href="/wiki/Hannibal" title="Hannibal">Hannibal</a> in <a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy">Italy</a> and political opposition in the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Senate" title="Roman Senate">Roman Senate</a> and rather decides to strike at the <a href="/wiki/Carthage" title="Carthage">Carthaginian</a> holdings in North Africa. Scipio crosses to <a href="/wiki/Sicily" title="Sicily">Sicily</a> with an army consisting partly of volunteers as the Roman Senate would not provide him with an army.</li> <li>The Roman <a href="/wiki/Propraetor" class="mw-redirect" title="Propraetor">propraetor</a> <a href="/wiki/Quintus_Pleminius" title="Quintus Pleminius">Quintus Pleminius</a> captures the town of <a href="/wiki/Locri_Epizephyrii" title="Locri Epizephyrii">Locri Epizephyrii</a> from the Carthaginians. Hannibal's attempt to recapture the town is foiled by the appearance of Scipio's army.</li> <li>Scipio sends the Roman general <a href="/wiki/Gaius_Laelius" title="Gaius Laelius">Gaius Laelius</a> to North Africa to prepare the way for his later invasion.</li> <li>A Carthaginian army under <a href="/wiki/Mago_Barca" title="Mago Barca">Mago Barca</a> lands in <a href="/wiki/Liguria" title="Liguria">Liguria</a>, capturing <a href="/wiki/Genoa" title="Genoa">Genoa</a> and <a href="/wiki/Savona" title="Savona">Savona</a>.</li> <li>Hannibal erects a <a href="/wiki/Bilingual" class="mw-redirect" title="Bilingual">bilingual</a> <a href="/wiki/Punic" class="mw-redirect" title="Punic">Punic</a>/<a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greece" title="Ancient Greece">Greek</a> inscription describing his accomplishments in the <a href="/wiki/Temple_of_Juno_Lacinia_(Crotone)" title="Temple of Juno Lacinia (Crotone)">temple of Juno Lacinia</a> near <a href="/wiki/Crotone" title="Crotone">Crotone</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Egypt">Egypt</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=205_BC&action=edit&section=T-5" title="Edit section: Egypt"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The native <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Egypt" title="Ancient Egypt">Egyptian</a> population rises in rebellion against their Greek rulers. The revolt spreads to <a href="/wiki/Upper_Egypt" title="Upper Egypt">Upper Egypt</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ptolemy_IV_Philopator" title="Ptolemy IV Philopator">Ptolemy IV</a> dies and is succeeded by his five-year-old son <a href="/wiki/Ptolemy_V_Epiphanes" title="Ptolemy V Epiphanes">Ptolemy V</a>. However, no public announcement is made about the king's death.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="China_5"> China</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=205_BC&action=edit&section=T-6" title="Edit section: China"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Xiang_Yu" title="Xiang Yu">Xiang Yu</a> defeats <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Gaozu_of_Han" title="Emperor Gaozu of Han">Liu Bang</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Pengcheng" title="Battle of Pengcheng">Battle of Pengcheng</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Han_Xin" title="Han Xin">Han Xin</a> captures Feiqiu, the last holdout of <a href="/wiki/Zhang_Han_(Qin_dynasty)" title="Zhang Han (Qin dynasty)">Zhang Han</a>, thus completing the <a href="/wiki/Han_dynasty" title="Han dynasty">Han</a> conquest of the <a href="/wiki/Three_Qins" title="Three Qins">Three Qins</a>. Zhang Han commits suicide.</li> <li>Han Xin defeats <a href="/wiki/Wei_Bao" title="Wei Bao">Wei Bao</a> and conquers the kingdom of <a href="/wiki/Wei_(state)" title="Wei (state)">Wei</a>.</li> <li>Xiang Yu besieges Liu Bang's forces in Xingyang and Chenggao.</li> <li>Han Xin begins the conquest of <a href="/wiki/Prince_of_Dai" title="Prince of Dai">Dai</a> and <a href="/wiki/Zhao_(state)" title="Zhao (state)">Zhao</a>, and he defeats Chen Yu in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Jingxing" title="Battle of Jingxing">Battle of Jingxing</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ying_Bu" title="Ying Bu">Ying Bu</a>, the king of <a href="/wiki/Eighteen_Kingdoms" title="Eighteen Kingdoms">Jiujiang</a>, allies with Liu Bang.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Northern_Asia">Northern Asia</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=205_BC&action=edit&section=T-7" title="Edit section: Northern Asia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The Xiongnu leader, <a href="/wiki/Modu_Chanyu" title="Modu Chanyu">Modu Chanyu</a>, conquers the neighbouring nomadic <a href="/wiki/Yuezhi" title="Yuezhi">Yuezhi</a> and <a href="/wiki/Donghu_people" title="Donghu people">Donghu</a> peoples, thereby establishing the <a href="/wiki/Xiongnu_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Xiongnu Empire">Xiongnu Empire</a>. He appoints a <a href="/wiki/Tuqi_King" title="Tuqi King">Tuqi King</a> of the left (east) and a Tuqi King of the right (west) to prevent rebellions.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="204_BC">204 BC</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Module:For_nowiki&action=edit&section=T-1" title="Edit section: 204 BC"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable relarticle mainarticle selfreference noprint">This section is <a href="/wiki/Help:Transclusion" title="Help:Transclusion">transcluded</a> from <a href="/wiki/204_BC" title="204 BC">204 BC</a>. <span class="plainlinks" style="font-style: normal; font-size:85%;">(<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=204_BC&action=edit">edit</a> | <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=204_BC&action=history">history</a>)</span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="By_place_6"> By place</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=204_BC&action=edit&section=T-1" title="Edit section: By place"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Carthage_2"> Carthage</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=204_BC&action=edit&section=T-2" title="Edit section: Carthage"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Having lost his <a href="/wiki/Military_alliance" title="Military alliance">alliance</a> with the <a href="/wiki/Numidia" title="Numidia">Numidian</a> chief <a href="/wiki/Masinissa" title="Masinissa">Masinissa</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Carthage" title="Carthage">Carthaginian</a> general, <a href="/wiki/Hasdrubal_Gisco" title="Hasdrubal Gisco">Hasdrubal Gisco</a>, finds a new ally in the Numidian king <a href="/wiki/Syphax" title="Syphax">Syphax</a>, who <a href="/wiki/Marries" class="mw-redirect" title="Marries">marries</a> <a href="/wiki/Sophonisba" title="Sophonisba">Sophonisba</a>, Hasdrubal's daughter, who, until his <a href="/wiki/Defection" title="Defection">defection</a> to <a href="/wiki/Roman_Republic" title="Roman Republic">Rome</a>, has been <a href="/wiki/Betrothed" class="mw-redirect" title="Betrothed">betrothed</a> to Masinissa.</li> <li>Roman forces under <a href="/wiki/Scipio_Africanus" title="Scipio Africanus">Publius Cornelius Scipio</a> besiege <a href="/wiki/Utica,_Tunisia" title="Utica, Tunisia">Utica</a> in Carthaginia. Scipio is unable to stop the combined forces of the Carthaginians under Hasdrubal Gisco and the Numidians under their chief, Syphax, and he is forced to lift his siege of Utica.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Egypt_2"> Egypt</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=204_BC&action=edit&section=T-3" title="Edit section: Egypt"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The late <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Egypt" title="Ancient Egypt">Egyptian</a> King <a href="/wiki/Ptolemy_IV_Philopator" title="Ptolemy IV Philopator">Ptolemy IV's</a> <a href="/wiki/Clique" title="Clique">clique</a> of favourites, <a href="/wiki/Leadership" title="Leadership">led</a> by <a href="/wiki/Sosibius" title="Sosibius">Sosibius</a>, Ptolemy's chief minister, keeps Ptolemy's death a secret, fearing retribution from the new king <a href="/wiki/Ptolemy_V_Epiphanes" title="Ptolemy V Epiphanes">Ptolemy V's</a> mother, Queen <a href="/wiki/Arsinoe_III_of_Egypt" title="Arsinoe III of Egypt">Arsinoe III</a>. They arrange for the murder of Arsinoe, and then the five-year-old king is officially elevated to the throne with Sosibius as his guardian. Arsinoe has been popular with the Egyptian population so <a href="/wiki/Riot" title="Riot">rioting</a> follows the news of her assassination.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Roman_Republic_6"> Roman Republic</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=204_BC&action=edit&section=T-4" title="Edit section: Roman Republic"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Crotona" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Crotona">Battle of Crotona</a> is fought between <a href="/wiki/Hannibal" title="Hannibal">Hannibal</a>'s Carthaginian army, and a Roman force led by <a href="/wiki/Publius_Sempronius_Tuditanus" title="Publius Sempronius Tuditanus">Publius Sempronius Tuditanus</a>, with no decisive outcome for either side.</li> <li>End of the <a href="/wiki/Second_Punic_War" title="Second Punic War">Second Punic War</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Seleucid_Empire_4"> Seleucid Empire</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=204_BC&action=edit&section=T-5" title="Edit section: Seleucid Empire"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Philip_V_of_Macedon" title="Philip V of Macedon">Philip V of Macedon</a> and <a href="/wiki/Antiochus_III_the_Great" title="Antiochus III the Great">Antiochus III</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Syria" title="Syria">Syrian</a>-based <a href="/wiki/Seleucid" class="mw-redirect" title="Seleucid">Seleucid</a> <a href="/wiki/Monarchy" title="Monarchy">kingdom</a> realize Egypt's weakness and agree to partition Egypt's <a href="/wiki/Anatolia" title="Anatolia">Anatolian</a> and <a href="/wiki/Aegean_Sea" title="Aegean Sea">Aegean</a> possessions. Antiochus' share is to be southern Syria, <a href="/wiki/Lycia" title="Lycia">Lycia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cilicia" title="Cilicia">Cilicia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cyprus" title="Cyprus">Cyprus</a>, while Philip is to gain western <a href="/wiki/Anatolia" title="Anatolia">Anatolia</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Cyclades" title="Cyclades">Cyclades</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="China_6"> China</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=204_BC&action=edit&section=T-6" title="Edit section: China"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Han_Xin" title="Han Xin">Han Xin</a> completes the conquest of <a href="/wiki/Zhao_(state)" title="Zhao (state)">Zhao</a> and receives the surrender of <a href="/wiki/Yan_(state)" title="Yan (state)">Yan</a>. He captures the Zhao capital of <a href="/wiki/Handan" title="Handan">Handan</a> and defeats <a href="/wiki/Chu_(state)" title="Chu (state)">Chu</a> relief forces sent by <a href="/wiki/Xiang_Yu" title="Xiang Yu">Xiang Yu</a>.</li> <li>Han Xin invades the <a href="/wiki/State_of_Qi" class="mw-redirect" title="State of Qi">State of Qi</a>, defeats Qi's armies, captures their capital <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Linzi" title="Ancient Linzi">Linzi</a> and crushes a coalition army of Chu and Qi forces under <a href="/wiki/Long_Ju" title="Long Ju">Long Ju</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Wei_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of the Wei River">Battle of the Wei River</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="203_BC">203 BC</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Module:For_nowiki&action=edit&section=T-1" title="Edit section: 203 BC"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable relarticle mainarticle selfreference noprint">This section is <a href="/wiki/Help:Transclusion" title="Help:Transclusion">transcluded</a> from <a href="/wiki/203_BC" title="203 BC">203 BC</a>. <span class="plainlinks" style="font-style: normal; font-size:85%;">(<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=203_BC&action=edit">edit</a> | <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=203_BC&action=history">history</a>)</span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="By_place_7"> By place</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=203_BC&action=edit&section=T-1" title="Edit section: By place"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Carthage_3"> Carthage</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=203_BC&action=edit&section=T-2" title="Edit section: Carthage"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Roman_Republic" title="Roman Republic">Roman</a> general, <a href="/wiki/Scipio_Africanus" title="Scipio Africanus">Publius Cornelius Scipio</a>, while undertaking peace negotiations with the <a href="/wiki/Carthage" title="Carthage">Carthaginians</a> at <a href="/wiki/Utica,_Tunisia" title="Utica, Tunisia">Utica</a>, makes a surprise attack on the Carthaginian camp and destroys it. Then, sweeping down on the forces that the Carthaginians and their allies, the <a href="/wiki/Numidia" title="Numidia">Numidians</a>, are trying to <a href="/wiki/Muster_(military)" title="Muster (military)">muster</a> on the Great Plains near the upper <a href="/wiki/Medjerda_River" title="Medjerda River">Bagradas River</a> (in modern <a href="/wiki/Tunisia" title="Tunisia">Tunisia</a>), he smashes that army in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Great_Plains" title="Battle of the Great Plains">Battle of the Great Plains</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Numidia" title="Numidia">Numidian</a> king, <a href="/wiki/Syphax" title="Syphax">Syphax</a>, and the Carthaginian leader, <a href="/wiki/Hasdrubal_Gisco" title="Hasdrubal Gisco">Hasdrubal Gisco</a>, manage to escape separately.</li> <li>The Roman general, <a href="/wiki/Gaius_Laelius" title="Gaius Laelius">Gaius Laelius</a>, and Rome's Numidian ally, <a href="/wiki/Masinissa" title="Masinissa">Masinissa</a>, follow Syphax towards <a href="/wiki/Cirta" title="Cirta">Cirta</a>, the Numidian capital. In the pursuit, Syphax is captured after his badly wounded horse throws him off. He is delivered to Scipio and is made a prisoner of the Romans, dying in the Italian town of <a href="/wiki/Alba_Fucens" title="Alba Fucens">Alba Fucens</a> later in the year.</li> <li>Masinissa becomes king of both the Massyli and the Massaesyli tribes in Numidia and remains a loyal ally to the Romans.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hasdrubal_Gisco" title="Hasdrubal Gisco">Hasdrubal Gisco</a> persuades the Carthaginians to raise a new army and to send for <a href="/wiki/Hannibal" title="Hannibal">Hannibal</a> to return home from Italy. Hannibal finally leaves Italy and returns to Carthage.</li> <li>The Carthaginian general, <a href="/wiki/Mago_Barca" title="Mago Barca">Mago Barca</a>, is defeated and wounded by the Romans in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Insubria" title="Battle of Insubria">Battle of Insubria</a>. He dies of his wounds on the return voyage to Carthage.</li> <li>A preliminary <a href="/wiki/Armistice" title="Armistice">armistice</a> between Carthage and Rome is declared and the Carthaginian armies accept Scipio's severe terms. However, on his return to Carthage, Hannibal concentrates the remnants of the Carthaginian forces at <a href="/wiki/Hadrumetum" title="Hadrumetum">Hadrumetum</a> (modern <a href="/wiki/Sousse" title="Sousse">Sousse</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tunisia" title="Tunisia">Tunisia</a>) and prepares them for battle.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="China_7"> China</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=203_BC&action=edit&section=T-3" title="Edit section: China"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Han_Xin" title="Han Xin">Han Xin</a> completes the conquest of <a href="/wiki/Qi_(state)" title="Qi (state)">Qi</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Gaozu_of_Han" title="Emperor Gaozu of Han">Liu Bang</a> appoints him as its king.</li> <li>After <a href="/wiki/Xiang_Yu" title="Xiang Yu">Xiang Yu</a> fails to persuade Han Xin to remain neutral, Han Xin and Liu Bang launch a five-pronged invasion of <a href="/wiki/Chu_(state)" title="Chu (state)">Chu</a>. They decisively defeat Xiang Yu in the Battle of Chen and the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Gaixia" title="Battle of Gaixia">Battle of Gaixia</a>.</li> <li>Xiang Yu flees toward <a href="/wiki/Wuyue" title="Wuyue">Wuyue</a> and, pursued by <a href="/wiki/Han_dynasty" title="Han dynasty">Han</a> cavalry, commits suicide.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="202_BC">202 BC</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Module:For_nowiki&action=edit&section=T-1" title="Edit section: 202 BC"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable relarticle mainarticle selfreference noprint">This section is <a href="/wiki/Help:Transclusion" title="Help:Transclusion">transcluded</a> from <a href="/wiki/202_BC" title="202 BC">202 BC</a>. <span class="plainlinks" style="font-style: normal; font-size:85%;">(<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=202_BC&action=edit">edit</a> | <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=202_BC&action=history">history</a>)</span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="By_place_8"> By place</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=202_BC&action=edit&section=T-1" title="Edit section: By place"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Carthage_4"> Carthage</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=202_BC&action=edit&section=T-2" title="Edit section: Carthage"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Accused of <a href="/wiki/Treason" title="Treason">treason</a> by the <a href="/wiki/Carthage" title="Carthage">Carthaginians</a> after being defeated by the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Republic" title="Roman Republic">Romans</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Great_Plains" title="Battle of the Great Plains">Battle of the Great Plains</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hasdrubal_Gisco" title="Hasdrubal Gisco">Hasdrubal Gisco</a> commits suicide to avoid being <a href="/wiki/Lynching" title="Lynching">lynched</a> by a Carthaginian mob.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_19" title="October 19">October 19</a> – The <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Zama" title="Battle of Zama">Battle of Zama</a> (130 kilometers south-west of Carthage) ends the <a href="/wiki/Second_Punic_War" title="Second Punic War">Second Punic War</a> and largely destroys the power of Carthage. Roman and <a href="/wiki/Numidia" title="Numidia">Numidian</a> forces under the leadership of the Roman general <a href="/wiki/Scipio_Africanus" title="Scipio Africanus">Publius Cornelius Scipio</a> and his Numidian ally, <a href="/wiki/Masinissa" title="Masinissa">Masinissa</a>, defeat a combined army of Carthaginians and their Numidian allies under the command of <a href="/wiki/Hannibal" title="Hannibal">Hannibal</a> and force Carthage to capitulate. Hannibal loses 20,000 men in the defeat, but he is able to escape Masinissa's pursuit.<sup id="cite_ref-leglay_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-leglay-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Roman_Republic_7"> Roman Republic</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=202_BC&action=edit&section=T-3" title="Edit section: Roman Republic"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Following the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Zama" title="Battle of Zama">Battle of Zama</a>, the Roman general <a href="/wiki/Scipio_Africanus" title="Scipio Africanus">Publius Cornelius Scipio</a> gains the cognomen "Africanus" in honour of his feats in North Africa against Carthage.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Egypt_3"> Egypt</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=202_BC&action=edit&section=T-4" title="Edit section: Egypt"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Egypt" title="Ancient Egypt">Egyptian</a> <a href="/wiki/Regent" title="Regent">regent</a> and <a href="/wiki/Chief_minister" title="Chief minister">chief minister</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sosibius" title="Sosibius">Sosibius</a>, retires and <a href="/wiki/Agathocles_of_Egypt" title="Agathocles of Egypt">Agathocles</a>, another member of the ruling <a href="/wiki/Clique" title="Clique">clique</a>, becomes <a href="/wiki/Ptolemy_V_Epiphanes" title="Ptolemy V Epiphanes">Ptolemy V</a>'s guardian.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Agathocles_of_Egypt" title="Agathocles of Egypt">Agathocles</a> rule provokes Tlepolemus, the governor of <a href="/wiki/Pelusium" title="Pelusium">Pelusium</a> (Egypt's eastern frontier city), into action. Tlepolemus marches on <a href="/wiki/Alexandria" title="Alexandria">Alexandria</a>, where his supporters rouse a mob, compelling Agathocles to resign.</li> <li>The Egyptian boy king, <a href="/wiki/Ptolemy_V_Epiphanes" title="Ptolemy V Epiphanes">Ptolemy V</a>, is encouraged by a mob clamouring for revenge against the murderers of his mother <a href="/wiki/Arsinoe_III_of_Egypt" title="Arsinoe III of Egypt">Arsinoe III</a> to agree to Agathocles being killed. As a result, the mob searches out and butchers Agathocles and his family. Tlepolemus takes Agathocles' place as regent. However, he soon proves to be incompetent and is removed.</li> <li>During this period of confusion and change amongst Egypt’s leadership, armies under the <a href="/wiki/Seleucid" class="mw-redirect" title="Seleucid">Seleucid</a> king, <a href="/wiki/Antiochus_III_the_Great" title="Antiochus III the Great">Antiochus III</a>, make serious inroads into the Egyptian territories in <a href="/wiki/Coele-Syria" title="Coele-Syria">Coele-Syria</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="China_8"> China</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=202_BC&action=edit&section=T-5" title="Edit section: China"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Liu_Bang" class="mw-redirect" title="Liu Bang">Liu Bang</a> and <a href="/wiki/Han_Xin" title="Han Xin">Han Xin</a> defeat the remaining loyalists of Xiang Yu.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/28_February" class="mw-redirect" title="28 February">28 February</a>: Liu Bang declares himself Supreme Emperor of China, officially beginning the <a href="/wiki/Han_dynasty" title="Han dynasty">Han dynasty</a>.</li> <li>Liu Bang appoints Han Xin the king of <a href="/wiki/Chu_(state)" title="Chu (state)">Chu</a>, but he deposes him later in the year after accusing him of disloyalty.</li> <li>The construction of the new Chinese capital <a href="/wiki/Chang%27an" title="Chang'an">Chang'an</a> begins.</li> <li>Liu Bang gives the area of today's <a href="/wiki/Fujian" title="Fujian">Fujian</a> province to Wuzhu as his kingdom. Wuzhu starts the construction of his own capital Ye (<a href="/wiki/Fuzhou" title="Fuzhou">Fuzhou</a>).</li> <li>The construction of <a href="/wiki/Changsha" title="Changsha">Changsha</a> begins.</li> <li>The armies of Han, led by <a href="/wiki/Fan_Kuai" title="Fan Kuai">Fan Kuai</a>, suppress a rebellion by the <a href="/wiki/State_of_Yan" class="mw-redirect" title="State of Yan">State of Yan</a>, defeating its king <a href="/wiki/Zang_Tu" title="Zang Tu">Zang Tu</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="201_BC">201 BC</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Module:For_nowiki&action=edit&section=T-1" title="Edit section: 201 BC"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable relarticle mainarticle selfreference noprint">This section is <a href="/wiki/Help:Transclusion" title="Help:Transclusion">transcluded</a> from <a href="/wiki/201_BC" title="201 BC">201 BC</a>. <span class="plainlinks" style="font-style: normal; font-size:85%;">(<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=201_BC&action=edit">edit</a> | <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=201_BC&action=history">history</a>)</span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="By_place_9"> By place</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=201_BC&action=edit&section=T-1" title="Edit section: By place"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Carthage_5"> Carthage</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=201_BC&action=edit&section=T-2" title="Edit section: Carthage"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>On <a href="/wiki/Hannibal" title="Hannibal">Hannibal</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Advice_(opinion)" title="Advice (opinion)">advice</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Carthage" title="Ancient Carthage">Carthage</a> sues for <a href="/wiki/Peace_treaty" title="Peace treaty">peace</a> with the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Republic" title="Roman Republic">Romans</a>, ending the <a href="/wiki/Second_Punic_War" title="Second Punic War">Second Punic War</a>. Carthage is reduced to a <a href="/wiki/Client_state" title="Client state">client state</a> of <a href="/wiki/Roman_Republic" title="Roman Republic">Rome</a>. In the peace treaty between Carthage and Rome, Carthage <a href="/wiki/Surrender_(military)" title="Surrender (military)">surrenders</a> all her <a href="/wiki/Mediterranean" class="mw-redirect" title="Mediterranean">Mediterranean</a> possessions to Rome, including her <a href="/wiki/Iberian_Peninsula" title="Iberian Peninsula">Iberian</a> territories. The Carthaginians agree to pay Rome 200 <a href="/wiki/Talent_(measurement)" title="Talent (measurement)">talents</a> per year for 50 years, allow <a href="/wiki/Masinissa" title="Masinissa">Masinissa</a> to rule <a href="/wiki/Numidia" title="Numidia">Numidia</a> as an independent kingdom, make no war without Rome's permission, and destroy all but 10 of the Carthaginian <a href="/wiki/Warships" class="mw-redirect" title="Warships">warships</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li>Following the conclusion of the peace with Rome, Hannibal is elected as <a href="/wiki/Suffet" class="mw-redirect" title="Suffet">suffet</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Chief_magistrate" title="Chief magistrate">chief magistrate</a>, of Carthage. The office has over the years become insignificant in Carthaginian politics, but Hannibal restores its power and authority. He sets out to reform the administration and finances of Carthage and reduce the power of the <a href="/wiki/Oligarchy" title="Oligarchy">oligarchy</a> which has ruled Carthage before and during the <a href="/wiki/Second_Punic_War" title="Second Punic War">Second Punic War</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Roman_Republic_8"> Roman Republic</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=201_BC&action=edit&section=T-3" title="Edit section: Roman Republic"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The Romans oust the Carthaginians from <a href="/wiki/Malta" title="Malta">Malta</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Rome" title="Ancient Rome">Rome</a>, according to the Roman historian <a href="/wiki/Livy" title="Livy">Livy</a>, land is distributed to veterans of the <a href="/wiki/Second_Punic_War" title="Second Punic War">Second Punic War</a>. This is the first documented instance of a practice that later becomes <a href="/wiki/Normality_(behavior)" title="Normality (behavior)">commonplace</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Greece_5"> Greece</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=201_BC&action=edit&section=T-4" title="Edit section: Greece"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Philip_V_of_Macedon" title="Philip V of Macedon">Philip V of Macedon</a> captures <a href="/wiki/Samos" title="Samos">Samos</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Egypt" title="Ancient Egypt">Egyptian</a> <a href="/wiki/Naval_fleet" title="Naval fleet">fleet</a> stationed there. He then besieges <a href="/wiki/Chios" title="Chios">Chios</a> to the north.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rhodes" title="Rhodes">Rhodes</a> and its allies <a href="/wiki/Pergamum" class="mw-redirect" title="Pergamum">Pergamum</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cyzicus" title="Cyzicus">Cyzicus</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Byzantium" title="Byzantium">Byzantium</a> combine their fleets and defeat Philip V in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Chios_(201_BC)" title="Battle of Chios (201 BC)">Battle of Chios</a>. His flagship is trapped and rammed by two enemy ships.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Sparta" title="Sparta">Spartan</a> king, <a href="/wiki/Nabis_of_Sparta" title="Nabis of Sparta">Nabis</a>, once more invades and captures <a href="/wiki/Messene" title="Messene">Messene</a>. However, the Spartans are forced to retreat when the <a href="/wiki/Achaean_League" title="Achaean League">Achaean League</a> army of <a href="/wiki/Philopoemen" title="Philopoemen">Philopoemen</a> intervenes. Nabis' forces are decisively defeated at <a href="/wiki/Tegea" title="Tegea">Tegea</a> by Philopoemen and Nabis is forced to check his expansionist ambitions for the time being.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="China_9"> China</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=201_BC&action=edit&section=T-5" title="Edit section: China"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The construction of city walls around <a href="/wiki/Nanchang" title="Nanchang">Nanchang</a> begins.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>King <a href="/wiki/Xin_of_Han" title="Xin of Han">Xin of Han</a>, in alliance with <a href="/wiki/Modu_Chanyu" title="Modu Chanyu">Modu Chanyu</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Xiongnu" title="Xiongnu">Xiongnu</a>, launches a rebellion against the <a href="/wiki/Han_dynasty" title="Han dynasty">Han dynasty</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Taiyuan_Commandery" title="Taiyuan Commandery">Taiyuan Commandery</a>. He is defeated by <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Gaozu_of_Han" title="Emperor Gaozu of Han">Emperor Gaozu of Han</a> and his generals, who chase Xin of Han into Xiongnu territory.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="200_BC">200 BC</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Module:For_nowiki&action=edit&section=T-1" title="Edit section: 200 BC"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable relarticle mainarticle selfreference noprint">This section is <a href="/wiki/Help:Transclusion" title="Help:Transclusion">transcluded</a> from <a href="/wiki/200_BC" title="200 BC">200 BC</a>. <span class="plainlinks" style="font-style: normal; font-size:85%;">(<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=200_BC&action=edit">edit</a> | <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=200_BC&action=history">history</a>)</span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="By_place_10"> By place</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=200_BC&action=edit&section=T-1" title="Edit section: By place"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Seleucid_Empire_5"> Seleucid Empire</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=200_BC&action=edit&section=T-2" title="Edit section: Seleucid Empire"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Antiochus_III_the_Great" title="Antiochus III the Great">Antiochus III's</a> forces continue their <a href="/wiki/Invasion" title="Invasion">invasion</a> of <a href="/wiki/Coele_Syria" class="mw-redirect" title="Coele Syria">Coele Syria</a> and <a href="/wiki/Palestine_(region)" title="Palestine (region)">Palestine</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li>Conquest of Armenia by the Seleucids.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Greece_6"> Greece</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=200_BC&action=edit&section=T-3" title="Edit section: Greece"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Philip_V_of_Macedon" title="Philip V of Macedon">Philip V of Macedon</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Naval_fleet" title="Naval fleet">fleet</a> defeat the <a href="/wiki/Rhodes" title="Rhodes">Rhodians</a> at <a href="/wiki/Miletus" title="Miletus">Lade</a>. His forces then advance into <a href="/wiki/Pergamum" class="mw-redirect" title="Pergamum">Pergamum</a>, <a href="/wiki/Looting" title="Looting">plundering</a> Pergamese territory and <a href="/wiki/Offensive_(military)" title="Offensive (military)">attacking</a> cities in <a href="/wiki/Caria" title="Caria">Caria</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Acarnania" title="Acarnania">Acarnanians</a>, with <a href="/wiki/Macedonia_(ancient_kingdom)" title="Macedonia (ancient kingdom)">Macedonian</a> <a href="/wiki/Advocacy" title="Advocacy">support</a>, invade <a href="/wiki/Attica" title="Attica">Attica</a>, causing <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Athens" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient Athens">Athens</a>, which has previously maintained its <a href="/wiki/Neutrality_(international_relations)" class="mw-redirect" title="Neutrality (international relations)">neutrality</a>, to seek help from the enemies of Philip. <a href="/wiki/Attalus_I_Soter" class="mw-redirect" title="Attalus I Soter">Attalus I</a> of <a href="/wiki/Pergamum" class="mw-redirect" title="Pergamum">Pergamum</a>, who is with his <a href="/wiki/Flotilla" title="Flotilla">fleet</a> at <a href="/wiki/Aegina" title="Aegina">Aegina</a>, receives an <a href="/wiki/Embassy" class="mw-redirect" title="Embassy">embassy</a> from <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Athens" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient Athens">Athens</a> asking him to come to the city for <a href="/wiki/Consul_(representative)" title="Consul (representative)">consultations</a>. After he is told that <a href="/wiki/Roman_Republic" title="Roman Republic">Roman</a> <a href="/wiki/Ambassadors" class="mw-redirect" title="Ambassadors">ambassadors</a> are also in Athens, Attalus goes there in haste.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li>The Roman ambassador to <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greece" title="Ancient Greece">Greece</a>, <a href="/wiki/Syria" title="Syria">Syria</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Egypt" title="Ancient Egypt">Egypt</a>, <a href="/wiki/Marcus_Aemilius_Lepidus_(consul_187_BC)" title="Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (consul 187 BC)">Marcus Aemilius Lepidus</a> <a href="/wiki/Delivery_(commerce)" title="Delivery (commerce)">delivers</a> an <a href="/wiki/Ultimatum" title="Ultimatum">ultimatum</a> to Philip V warning Macedonia not to make war on any Greek state. Philip decides to reject the Roman <a href="/wiki/Ultimatum" title="Ultimatum">ultimatum</a> and the Romans <a href="/wiki/Declaration_of_war" title="Declaration of war">declare war</a> on Macedon, thus starting the <a href="/wiki/Second_Macedonian_War" title="Second Macedonian War">Second Macedonian War</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li>The Roman consul, <a href="/wiki/Publius_Sulpicius_Galba_Maximus" title="Publius Sulpicius Galba Maximus">Publius Sulpicius Galba Maximus</a>, asks <a href="/wiki/Attalus_I_Soter" class="mw-redirect" title="Attalus I Soter">Attalus I</a> and his <a href="/wiki/Naval_fleet" title="Naval fleet">fleet</a> to meet up with the Roman fleet off the Greek <a href="/wiki/Aegean_Sea" title="Aegean Sea">Aegean</a> coast and they conduct a naval campaign against Philip V, <a href="/wiki/Harassment" title="Harassment">harassing</a> Macedonian possessions in and along the <a href="/wiki/Aegean_Sea" title="Aegean Sea">Aegean</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Roman_Republic_9"> Roman Republic</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=200_BC&action=edit&section=T-4" title="Edit section: Roman Republic"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Bactria"> Bactria</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=200_BC&action=edit&section=T-5" title="Edit section: Bactria"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Euthydemus_I" title="Euthydemus I">Euthydemus I</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Greco-Bactrian_Kingdom" title="Greco-Bactrian Kingdom">Greco-Bactrian Kingdom</a> dies and is succeeded by his son <a href="/wiki/Demetrius_I_of_Bactria" title="Demetrius I of Bactria">Demetrius I of Bactria</a> (approximate date).<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="South_America"> South America</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=200_BC&action=edit&section=T-6" title="Edit section: South America"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The city of <a href="/wiki/Tiwanaku" title="Tiwanaku">Tiwanaku</a> is founded as a <a href="/wiki/Village" title="Village">village</a> near <a href="/wiki/Lake_Titicaca" title="Lake Titicaca">Lake Titicaca</a> in modern <a href="/wiki/Bolivia" title="Bolivia">Bolivia</a> (approximate date).<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li>The Early Horizon period in the <a href="/wiki/Andes" title="Andes">Andes</a> comes to an end as the <a href="/wiki/Chavin_culture" class="mw-redirect" title="Chavin culture">Chavin culture</a> vanishes and is succeeded by the <a href="/wiki/Nazca_culture" title="Nazca culture">Nazca culture</a> (approximate date).<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="China_10"> China</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=200_BC&action=edit&section=T-7" title="Edit section: China"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/China" title="China">Chinese</a> create a padding material.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li>The construction of the Wei-Yang Palace in the <a href="/wiki/Han_dynasty" title="Han dynasty">Han dynasty</a> capital (<a href="/wiki/Chang%27an" title="Chang'an">Chang'an</a>) begins.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Han_dynasty" title="Han dynasty">Han emperor</a> <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Gaozu_of_Han" title="Emperor Gaozu of Han">Gaozu</a> is defeated by the <a href="/wiki/Xiongnu" title="Xiongnu">Xiongnu</a>, led by <a href="/wiki/Modu_Chanyu" title="Modu Chanyu">Modu Chanyu</a>, in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Baideng" title="Battle of Baideng">Battle of Baideng</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="By_topic"> By topic</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=200_BC&action=edit&section=T-8" title="Edit section: By topic"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Art"> Art</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=200_BC&action=edit&section=T-9" title="Edit section: Art"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Alexander_the_Great" title="Alexander the Great">Alexander the Great</a></i>, head from a <a href="/wiki/Hellenistic" class="mw-redirect" title="Hellenistic">Hellenistic</a> copy of a statue, possibly after a <a href="/wiki/4th_century_BC" title="4th century BC">4th century BC</a> original by <a href="/wiki/Lysippos" title="Lysippos">Lysippos</a> is made. It is now kept at the Archeological Museum in <a href="/wiki/Istanbul" title="Istanbul">Istanbul</a>, <a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lost-wax_casting" title="Lost-wax casting">Lost-wax casting</a> is known in <a href="/wiki/History_of_China#Ancient_China" title="History of China">China</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mesopotamia" title="Mesopotamia">Mesopotamia</a> (approximate date).</li> <li>Roman artists begin attempting to produce the illusion of thin slabs of colored marble covering the walls, which are set off by actual architectural moldings and columns, in private houses. These attempts last for <a href="/wiki/80_BC" title="80 BC">120 years</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Astronomy"> Astronomy</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=200_BC&action=edit&section=T-10" title="Edit section: Astronomy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The first good measurement of the distance between <a href="/wiki/Earth" title="Earth">Earth</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Sun" title="Sun">Sun</a> is made by <a href="/wiki/Eratosthenes" title="Eratosthenes">Eratosthenes</a> (approximate date). By studying <a href="/wiki/Lunar_eclipse" title="Lunar eclipse">lunar eclipses</a>, his result is roughly 150 000 000 km. The currently accepted value is 149 597 870 691 ± 30 metres.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Births">Births</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable noprint selfref">Transcluding articles: <a href="/wiki/209_BC" title="209 BC">209 BC</a>, <a href="/wiki/208_BC" title="208 BC">208 BC</a>, <a href="/wiki/207_BC" title="207 BC">207 BC</a>, <a href="/wiki/206_BC" title="206 BC">206 BC</a>, <a href="/wiki/205_BC" title="205 BC">205 BC</a>, <a href="/wiki/204_BC" title="204 BC">204 BC</a>, <a href="/wiki/203_BC" title="203 BC">203 BC</a>, <a href="/wiki/202_BC" title="202 BC">202 BC</a>, <a href="/wiki/201_BC" title="201 BC">201 BC</a>, and <a href="/wiki/200_BC" title="200 BC">200 BC</a></div> <p><b>208 BC</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Liu_Ruyi" title="Liu Ruyi">Liu Ruyi</a>, Chinese prince and only son of the first <a href="/wiki/Han_dynasty" title="Han dynasty">Han</a> emperor <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Gaozu_of_Han" title="Emperor Gaozu of Han">Liu Bang</a> (d. <a href="/wiki/194_BC" title="194 BC">194 BC</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polybius" title="Polybius">Polybius</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greece" title="Ancient Greece">Greek</a> historian, famous for his book called "The Histories" or "The Rise of the Roman Empire", covering in detail the period between <a href="/wiki/220_BC" title="220 BC">220</a> and <a href="/wiki/146_BC" title="146 BC">146 BC</a> (d. <a href="/wiki/120_BC" title="120 BC">120 BC</a>)</li></ul> <p><b>200 BC</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chao_Cuo" title="Chao Cuo">Chao Cuo</a>, Chinese political advisor and official (approximate date)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gongsun_Hong" title="Gongsun Hong">Gongsun Hong</a>, Chinese statesman and chancellor (d. <a href="/wiki/121_BC" title="121 BC">121 BC</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jia_Yi" title="Jia Yi">Jia Yi</a>, Chinese statesman and poet (d. <a href="/wiki/170_BC" title="170 BC">170 BC</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emperor_Wen_of_Han" title="Emperor Wen of Han">Wen</a>, Chinese emperor of the <a href="/wiki/Han_dynasty" title="Han dynasty">Han dynasty</a> (d. <a href="/wiki/157_BC" title="157 BC">157 BC</a>)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Deaths">Deaths</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable noprint selfref">Transcluding articles: <a href="/wiki/209_BC" title="209 BC">209 BC</a>, <a href="/wiki/208_BC" title="208 BC">208 BC</a>, <a href="/wiki/207_BC" title="207 BC">207 BC</a>, <a href="/wiki/206_BC" title="206 BC">206 BC</a>, <a href="/wiki/205_BC" title="205 BC">205 BC</a>, <a href="/wiki/204_BC" title="204 BC">204 BC</a>, <a href="/wiki/203_BC" title="203 BC">203 BC</a>, <a href="/wiki/202_BC" title="202 BC">202 BC</a>, <a href="/wiki/201_BC" title="201 BC">201 BC</a>, and <a href="/wiki/200_BC" title="200 BC">200 BC</a></div> <p><b>209 BC</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Touman" title="Touman">Touman</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chanyu" title="Chanyu">chanyu</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Xiongnu" title="Xiongnu">Xiongnu Empire</a>. (Killed by his successor)</li></ul> <p><b>208 BC</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Marcus_Claudius_Marcellus" title="Marcus Claudius Marcellus">Marcus Claudius Marcellus</a>, Roman general who has captured <a href="/wiki/Syracuse,_Sicily" title="Syracuse, Sicily">Syracuse</a> during the Second Punic War and has become known as "the sword of Rome" (b. <a href="/wiki/268_BC" title="268 BC">268 BC</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Li_Si" title="Li Si">Li Si</a>, Chinese philosopher and politician (assassinated) (b. <a href="/wiki/280_BC" title="280 BC">280 BC</a>)</li></ul> <p><b>207 BC</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/June_22" title="June 22">June 22</a> – <a href="/wiki/Hasdrubal_Barca" title="Hasdrubal Barca">Hasdrubal Barca</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Carthage" title="Ancient Carthage">Carthaginian</a> general in the <a href="/wiki/Second_Punic_War" title="Second Punic War">Second Punic War</a> (b. <a href="/wiki/245_BC" title="245 BC">245 BC</a>)</li> <li><i>date unknown</i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/An_D%C6%B0%C6%A1ng_V%C6%B0%C6%A1ng" title="An Dương Vương">An Dương Vương</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_Vietnamese_monarchs" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Vietnamese monarchs">King of Nam Việt</a> since <a href="/wiki/257_BC" title="257 BC">257 BC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chrysippus" title="Chrysippus">Chrysippus</a>, Greek philosopher from <a href="/wiki/Soloi" class="mw-redirect" title="Soloi">Soloi</a> who was the principal systematiser of <a href="/wiki/Stoicism" title="Stoicism">Stoic</a> philosophy (b. c. <a href="/wiki/280_BC" title="280 BC">280 BC</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hasdrubal_Barca" title="Hasdrubal Barca">Hasdrubal Barca</a>, <a href="/wiki/Carthage" title="Carthage">Carthaginian</a> general who has unsuccessfully attempted to sustain Carthage's military ascendancy on the Spanish peninsula in the face of <a href="/wiki/Roman_Republic" title="Roman Republic">Roman</a> attacks (b. <a href="/wiki/245_BC" title="245 BC">245 BC</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Machanidas" title="Machanidas">Machanidas</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sparta" title="Sparta">Spartan</a> general and regent (killed in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Mantinea_(207_BC)" title="Battle of Mantinea (207 BC)">battle of Mantinea</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qin_Er_Shi" title="Qin Er Shi">Qin Er Shi</a>, Emperor of the <a href="/wiki/Qin_dynasty" title="Qin dynasty">Qin dynasty</a> of <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a> (assassinated) (b. <a href="/wiki/229_BC" title="229 BC">229 BC</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simuka" title="Simuka">Simuka</a>, Indian king from <a href="/wiki/230_BC" title="230 BC">230 BC</a> and the founder of the <a href="/wiki/Satavahana" class="mw-redirect" title="Satavahana">Satavahana</a> dynasty (b. <a href="/wiki/230_BC" title="230 BC">230 BC</a>)<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="it is very unlikely Simuka was alive in the third century BC though the dates of his life are uncertain (July 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zhao_Gao" title="Zhao Gao">Zhao Gao</a>, Chief <a href="/wiki/Eunuch_(court_official)" class="mw-redirect" title="Eunuch (court official)">eunuch</a> in the service of the Emperors of the <a href="/wiki/Qin_dynasty" title="Qin dynasty">Qin dynasty</a> of <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a> (assassinated)</li></ul></li></ul> <p><b>206 BC</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chrysippus" title="Chrysippus">Chrysippus</a>, Greek <a href="/wiki/Stoicism" title="Stoicism">Stoic</a> <a href="/wiki/Philosophy" title="Philosophy">philosopher</a> (approximate date)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cheng,_King_of_Han" title="Cheng, King of Han">Han Cheng</a>, Chinese ruler of the <a href="/wiki/Eighteen_Kingdoms" title="Eighteen Kingdoms">Eighteen Kingdoms</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Han_Guang" title="Han Guang">Han Guang</a>, Chinese ruler of the Eighteen Kingdoms</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scerdilaidas" title="Scerdilaidas">Scerdilaidas</a>, Illyrian king of the <a href="/wiki/List_of_rulers_in_Illyria" class="mw-redirect" title="List of rulers in Illyria">Ardiaean Kingdom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emperor_Yi_of_Chu" title="Emperor Yi of Chu">Yi</a> (or <b>Huai II</b>), Chinese ruler of the <a href="/wiki/Chu_(state)" title="Chu (state)">Chu State</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ziying_of_Qin" title="Ziying of Qin">Ziying</a>, Chinese ruler of the <a href="/wiki/Qin_dynasty" title="Qin dynasty">Qin Dynasty</a></li></ul> <p><b>205 BC</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ptolemy_IV_Philopator" title="Ptolemy IV Philopator">Ptolemy IV Philopator</a>, Greek king of <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Egypt" title="Ancient Egypt">Egypt</a> who has reigned from <a href="/wiki/221_BC" title="221 BC">221 BC</a> (b. c. <a href="/wiki/238_BC" title="238 BC">238 BC</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sima_Ang" title="Sima Ang">Sima Ang</a>, Chinese ruler of the <a href="/wiki/Eighteen_Kingdoms" title="Eighteen Kingdoms">Eighteen Kingdoms</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zhang_Han_(Qin_dynasty)" title="Zhang Han (Qin dynasty)">Zhang Han</a>, Chinese general of the <a href="/wiki/Qin_dynasty" title="Qin dynasty">Qin dynasty</a></li></ul> <p><b>204 BC</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arsinoe_III_of_Egypt" title="Arsinoe III of Egypt">Arsinoe III</a>, queen of <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Egypt" title="Ancient Egypt">Egypt</a>, sister and wife of Ptolemy IV (assassinated) (b. c. <a href="/wiki/246_BC" title="246 BC">246 BC</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dong_Yi_(Qin_dynasty)" title="Dong Yi (Qin dynasty)">Dong Yi</a>, Chinese general of the <a href="/wiki/Qin_dynasty" title="Qin dynasty">Qin Dynasty</a> and conferred with the title of "King of Di"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fan_Zeng" title="Fan Zeng">Fan Zeng</a>, Chinese adviser during the <a href="/wiki/Chu-Han_Contention" class="mw-redirect" title="Chu-Han Contention">Chu-Han Contention</a> (206–202 BC) (b. <a href="/wiki/277_BC" title="277 BC">277 BC</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gong_Ao" title="Gong Ao">Gong Ao</a>, Chinese ruler of the <a href="/wiki/Eighteen_Kingdoms" title="Eighteen Kingdoms">Eighteen Kingdoms</a> during the Chu-Han Contention</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hanno_the_Elder" title="Hanno the Elder">Hanno the Elder</a>, Carthaginian general executed by <a href="/wiki/Scipio_Africanus" title="Scipio Africanus">Scipio Africanus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ji_Xin" title="Ji Xin">Ji Xin</a>, Chinese general during the Chu-Han Contention</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Li_Yiji" title="Li Yiji">Li Yiji</a>, Chinese politician and adviser (b. <a href="/wiki/268_BC" title="268 BC">268 BC</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Long_Ju" title="Long Ju">Long Ju</a>, Chinese general and <a href="/wiki/Grand_Marshal" class="mw-redirect" title="Grand Marshal">Grand Marshal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ptolemy_IV_Philopator" title="Ptolemy IV Philopator">Ptolemy IV Philopator</a>, king (<a href="/wiki/Pharaoh" title="Pharaoh">Pharaoh</a>) of <a href="/wiki/Ptolemaic_Kingdom" title="Ptolemaic Kingdom">Egypt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sima_Xin" title="Sima Xin">Sima Xin</a>, Chinese general of the Qin Dynasty</li></ul> <p><b>203 BC</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mago_Barca" title="Mago Barca">Mago Barca</a>, <a href="/wiki/Carthage" title="Carthage">Carthaginian</a> general during the <a href="/wiki/Second_Punic_War" title="Second Punic War">Second Punic War</a> against <a href="/wiki/Roman_Republic" title="Roman Republic">Rome</a> who has accompanied his brother <a href="/wiki/Hannibal" title="Hannibal">Hannibal</a> on the invasion of <a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy">Italy</a> (b. <a href="/wiki/243_BC" title="243 BC">243 BC</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quintus_Fabius_Maximus_Verrucosus" title="Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus">Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Roman_Republic" title="Roman Republic">Roman</a> general and statesman whose cautious delaying tactics (which have led to his surname Cunctator, meaning "delayer") during the early stages of the Second Punic War have given Rome time to recover its strength and take the offensive against the invading Carthaginian army of Hannibal (b. c. <a href="/wiki/275_BC" title="275 BC">275 BC</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Syphax" title="Syphax">Syphax</a>, <a href="/wiki/Numidia" title="Numidia">Numidian</a> king allied with the Carthaginians during the Second Punic War against Rome</li></ul> <p><b>202 BC</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hasdrubal_Gisco" title="Hasdrubal Gisco">Hasdrubal Gisco</a>, <a href="/wiki/Carthage" title="Carthage">Carthaginian</a> general who has fought against Rome in <a href="/wiki/Iberian_Peninsula" title="Iberian Peninsula">Iberia</a> and North Africa during the <a href="/wiki/Second_Punic_War" title="Second Punic War">Second Punic War</a>, customarily identified as the son of Gisco (suicide)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Xiang_Yu" title="Xiang Yu">Xiang Yu</a>, rebel leader against the <a href="/wiki/Qin_dynasty" title="Qin dynasty">Qin dynasty</a> and nemesis of <a href="/wiki/Liu_Bang" class="mw-redirect" title="Liu Bang">Liu Bang</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Chu%E2%80%93Han_Contention" title="Chu–Han Contention">Chu–Han Contention</a> (b. <a href="/wiki/232_BC" title="232 BC">232 BC</a>)</li></ul> <p><b>201 BC</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gnaeus_Naevius" title="Gnaeus Naevius">Gnaeus Naevius</a>, <a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a> epic <a href="/wiki/Poet" title="Poet">poet</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dramatist" class="mw-redirect" title="Dramatist">dramatist</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Old_Latin" title="Old Latin">Old Latin</a> period, who invented a new genre of written historical plays called <a href="/wiki/Fabulae_praetextae" class="mw-redirect" title="Fabulae praetextae">fabulae praetextae</a>, which are based on Roman historical or legendary figures and events (b. c. <a href="/wiki/264_BC" title="264 BC">264 BC</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zhongli_Mo" title="Zhongli Mo">Zhongli Mo</a>, Chinese general during the <a href="/wiki/Chu%E2%80%93Han_Contention" title="Chu–Han Contention">Chu–Han Contention</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. 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