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  2nd century BC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
168 BC - Battle of Pydna - The Macedonian phalanx defeated by Romans
164 BC November 21: Judas Maccabaeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, restores the Temple in Jerusalem.
113–101 BC - migration of the Cimbri and the Teutons, defeated at the battles of Aquae Sextiae and Vercellae
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2nd_century_BC   (399 words)

  
 Ancient Greece
The period from 1600 BC to about 1100 BC is described in History of Mycenaean Greece known for the reign of King Agamemnon and the wars against Troy as narrated in the epics of Homer.
From 650 BC onwards, the aristocracies had to fight not to be overthrown and replaced by populist leaders called tyrants (tyrranoi), a word which did not necessarily have the modern meaning of oppressive dictators.
In 404 BC Athens sued for peace, and Sparta dictated a predictably stern settlement: Athens lost her city walls, her fleet, and all of her overseas possessions.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/a/an/ancient_greece.html   (4403 words)

  
 Phoenicia - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
It was a time of disorder and conflict due to the immigration of new races into the ancient seats of civilization, and it synchronized with the weakening of the power of Egypt in the countries which bordered on the eastern Mediterranean.
One of their objects was the collection of murex, of which an enormous supply was needed for the dyeing industry; specially famous was the purple of the Laconian waters, the isles of Elishah of Ezek.
Then at the beginning of the 8th century B.C. the colonial power of Tyre began to decline; on the mainland and in Cyprus the Assyrians gained the Upper hand; in the Greek islands the Phoenicians had already been displaced to a great extent by the advancing tide of Dorian colonization.
www.1911ency.org /P/PH/PHOENICIA.htm   (10195 words)

  
 Legion XXIV - Time Line of Republican Rome
207 BC Battle of Metaurus (south of Fano on Adriatic coast of Italy), 2nd Punic War (219-202) where Marcus Livius and Claudius Nero and Roman force of 50,000 defeated a Carthginian army (50,000 with war elephants) under Hasdrubal (brother of Hannibal) and was the turning point in expelling the Carthginians from Italy.
66 BC Pompey re-defeats Mithridates at Nicopolis (Armenia)
58 BC Julius Caesar appointed Proconsul-Governor of Cisalpine and Transalpine Gaul and Illyricum.
www.legionxxiv.org /republictimeline   (3697 words)

  
 Roman Emperors DIR Quintilius   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
[[5]] On July 18 of 390 BC a Gallic raiding horde destroyed a Roman army at the Allia River, a tributary of the Tiber, occupied and sacked Rome.
In the first century BC the polymath Varro calculated the date which converts to 390 BC; his calculation was accepted by Livy (5.30-55).
The Achaean revolt that was part of the Fourth Macedonian War led to Rome's destruction of Corinth in 146 (the same year in which she obliterated Carthage).
www.roman-emperors.org /wardoc.htm   (7750 words)

  
 Phoenicia, Phoenicians and Punic: Carthaginian History
Dionysius capitalizes and defeats Himilco in pitched battle.
Fails and commits suicide in order to avoid court martial upon his return.
Carthage backs rival Numidian Syphax who along with Hasdrubal Gisco is defeated by Scipio in two successive battles.
www.phoenicia.org /carthtimeline.html   (1399 words)

  
 Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Rome
The Battle of Teutoburg Forest, 9 CE [At Hillsdale]
Egypt under the Roman Empire, excerpts from Strabo (64/3 BC- c.21 CE): Geography and Oxyrhynchus papyri.
430 BCE; Strabo (64/3 BC- c.21 CE): Geography; c.
www.fordham.edu /halsall/ancient/asbook09.html   (3375 words)

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