History
 

199 - 190 B.C.

Generations

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World

General

Population: Between 190 and 230 million*
  • Births: Roman playright Terence (195 BC)
  • Entertainment: Platus presents Latin comedy "Pseudolus" (191 BC)
  • Deaths: Erastothenes the Greek scientist (194 BC)

Africa

  • Carthage: Hannibal flees to Antiochus III of Syria (195 BC)

Europe

  • General: End of Second Macedonian War (197 or 196 BC) - Battle of Cynoscephalae where Romans defeat Philip V - 10,000 dead
  • Eastern Europe: Start of Armenian Kingdom in Eastern Europe to 387 AD (190 BC)
  • Gaul: End of Roman conquest of Gaul (192 BC)
  • Greece: Antiochus II and hannibal land in Greece (192 BC)
    Greco-macedonian kingdom under Roman control (190 BC)
  • Roman Empire: First triumphal arches built (196 BC)
    Cato the Elder becomes consul of Rome (195 BC)
    The Porticus Aemilia - large market hall on the Tiber built entirely of concrete (193 BC)
    War begins between Sparta and Rome (192 BC)

Middle East

  • General: Syrian Antiochus III takes Palestine from Egypt (198 BC)
    Roman victory in Asia Minor at Magnesia (190 BC)
  • Mesopotamia: Eumenes II becomes king of Pergamos (196 BC)
  • Syria: Syrian War between Syria and Rome - Antiochus III defeated (192 BC)
    Antiochus III defeated by Romans at Thermopylae (191 BC)



 
 
 
 
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