History
 

169 - 160 B.C.

Generations

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World

General

Population: Between 190 and 230 million*
  • Disease: Smallpox spreads from Rome through Europe to Persia until 150 BC (164 BC)
  • Entertainment: Terence presents performance of "Andria" (167 BC)
  • Mathematics: Hipparchus of Nicaea invents Trigonometry (160 BC)
  • Warfare: End of Third Macedonian War between Rome and Macedonia with 20,000 dead (168-167 BC)
  • Deaths: Antiochus IV Epiphanes of the Seleucid Empire (164-163 BC), Eleazar Maccabeus crushed by war elephant (162 BC), Judas Maccabee (Maccabaeus) (160 BC)

Americas

  • General: About this time Zeniff confers kingdom on son King Noah (160 BC)

Europe

  • General: Third Macedonian War between Rome and Macedonia - Perseus defeated by Romans
  • Eastern Europe: Start of the Commagene (Armenian) Empire to 72 AD (163 BC)
  • Greece: Battle of Pydna results in macedonians sold as slaves in Rome (168 BC)
    End of Antigonid Kingdom of Greece (168 BC)
    End of ancient Epirus (167 BC)
  • Roman Empire: Start of Roman world dominion as Rome defeats Greece in Third Macedonian War (168 BC)

Middle East

  • Judaea: Antiochus IV begins persecution of Jews (167 BC)
    Maccabee revolt started by Zeus worship in temple (167 BC)
    Eleazar Maccabeus crushed when killing a war elephant by stabbing it underneath and it fell on him (160 BC)
    Jewish political independence begins (161 BC)
    Judas Maccabee killed in battle against Syrians - Jonathan Maccabaeus leads until 143 (160 BC)
  • Persia: End of Antiochus IV Epiphanes of the Seleucid Empire (164-163 BC)



 
 
 
 
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