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General

Population: Between 190 and 230 million*

• Disease: Plague claims 2000 victims daily in Greece, Egypt, and Syria (187 BC)
• Warfare: Hannibal defeated by Rhodian fleet (189 BC)
• Deaths: Antiochus III of Babylon (187 BC), Latin commedian Platus (184 BC), Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus of Rome (183 BC), Hannibal (183 or 182 BC), Ptolemy V Epiphanes (181 BC)

Africa

• Carthage: Hannibal defeated by Rhodian fleet (189 BC)
  Death of Hannibal by suicide (183 or 182 BC)
• Egypt: Insurrections due to high taxes (189 BC)
  Ptolemy V Epiphanes dies and Ptolemy VI Philometor rules (181 BC)

Asia

• India: End of Asoka's Dynasty (185 BC)
  Fall of Mauryan Dynasty after Bactrians invade the Punjab (187 to 185 BC)
  End of Maurya Dynasty in north (184 BC)
  Sunga Dynasty begins founded by Pushayanitra (184 BC)

Europe

• Eastern Europe: Armenia independent from Seleucid rule (189 BC)
• Roman Empire: Scipio Africanus the Elder goes into voluntary exile (185 BC)
  Pisa and Parma in northern Italy become Roman colonies (183 BC)

Middle East

• Mesopotamia: End of Antiochus III of Babylon (187 BC)
  Gordyne (Corduene) people of Kurdistan region become independent to 90 BC (189 BC)
• Syria: End of Syrian War between Antiochus III and Rome - Rome wins (189 BC)