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General

Population: Between 190 and 230 million*

• Births: Hannibal (247 or 246 BC)
• Entertainment: Comedies of Livius Andronicus first performed in Rome (240 BC)
• Geography: Erastothenes accurately measures diameter and circumference of Earth, predicts tilt of the axis (240 BC)
• Religion: Daoism founded with Dao De Jing publication (Tao Te Jing) (240 BC)
• Warfare: End of First Punic War where Rome defeats Carthage and takes Sicily - total war dead is 50,000 (241 BC)
• Deaths: Ptolemy II Philadelphus (247 BC), Antiochus II Theos (246 BC)

Africa

• Carthage: Revolt of Carthaginian mercenaries - Crushed by Hamilcar Barca two years later (240 BC)
• Egypt: Death of Ptolemy II Philadelphus and Ptolemy III rules (247 BC)

Asia

• China: End of China's Chou Dynasty - Ch'in Dynasty founded (249 BC)
• India: Asoka rules Maurya empire and becomes Buddhist (247 BC)

Europe

• Greece: Agis IV of Sparta put to death for reforms (241 BC)
• Roman Empire: End of first Punic War where Rome defeats Carthage (241 BC)
  Roman naval victory off Lilybaeum - Sicily becomes first Roman province (241 BC)

Middle East

• Mesopotamia: Antiochus II Theos killed by wife and succeeded by son Seleucus II Callinicus (246 BC)
• Persia: Foundation of Elymais - a vassal of Parthia (Iran) to 221 AD (247 BC)