PEACH

History

149 - 140 B.C.

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Population: Between 190 and 230 million*

Entertainment: Venus de Milo sculpted (or 120 BC) (140 BC)
Geography: Crates of mallus forms great globe of the world (140 BC)
Warfare: Fourth Macedonian War (149-148 or 146)
Third Punic War with 50,000 dead (Rome and Carthage 149-146 BC)
Deaths: Marcus Portius Cato the Elder (149 BC), Abinadi (148 BC), King Noah (145 BC), Ptolemy VI Philometor (145 BC), Jonathan Maccabee (Macabaeus) (144 BC)

Egypt: Death of Ptolemy VI Philometor (145 BC)
Ptolemy VII Neos Philopater rules under regency of mother Cleopatry II (145 BC)
Ptolemy VIII Euergetes takes throne by marrying Cleopatra II and daughter Cleopatra III (145 BC)
North: Carthage attacks King Massinissa of East Numidia (Algeria) starting Third Punic War (149 BC)
Carthage destroyed - fire kills thousands (146 BC)

General: Abinidai burned and Alma I converted (148 BC)
Alma I preaches by Waters of Mormon (147 BC)
Gideon seeks to slay King Noah - lamanites invade and Noah burned (145 BC)

China: Hu Shin publishes Chinese dictionary (149 BC)
Wu Ti rules to 86 BC (147-0 BC)
India: Sakas invade Parthian empire and north (141 BC)

Greece: Rome conquers Macedonia, Corinth, and Greece killing 11,000 (147-6 BC)
End of Achaean war (War of hellenistic Monarchies) with 100,000 dead (146 BC)
End of Peloponnesian League and Macedon (146 BC)
Venus de Milo sculpted (or 120 BC) (140 BC)
Roman Empire: Death of marcus Portius Cato the Elder - Roman politician (149 BC)
Start of third Punic War (149 BC)
Empire expanded to seven provinces - Sicily, Sardinia + Corsica, the two Spains, Gallia, Transalpina, Africa, and Macedonia (146 BC)
Start of "Late Republic" of Rome and dictatorships (146 BC)
Minor eruption of Mt. Etna (140 BC)

Judaea: Judas Maccabee's successor Jonathan assassinated and Simon takes charge to 134 BC (144 BC)
Judaea gains independence from Syria under Maccabean rule (142 BC)
Jews liberate Jerusalem and Judaea proclaimed independent (141 BC)