The Romans and the rest of unit 3

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  • Period: 600 BCE to 500

    Unit 3

  • 500 BCE

    The Birth of Buddhism

    The Birth of Buddhism
    The start of Buddhism is an impossible date to pinpoint but it was founded about 2,500 ago from the modern day and it was founded by Siddhartha Gautama. The goal of Buddhism is to end all suffering in the world.
  • Period: 321 BCE to 185 BCE

    The Mauryan Empire

    The Mauryan Empire was the first Mjaor empire to emerge in India and it took over all of the Indian provinces and some of the middle eastern provinces of Alexander of Macedon's empire.
  • Period: 264 BCE to 241 BCE

    The first Punic war

    The first Punic War was between the Romans and the Carthaginian empire stemming from the island of Sicily
  • Period: 264 BCE to 260 BCE

    The Romans copy a ship

    Sometime early in the first Punic War, the Romans obtained a Carthaginian ship.
    The Romans said the ship had washed ashore.
    The Romans then took the Carthaginian ship tore it down piece by piece and rebuilt it and directly copied the Carthaginian design.
  • 262 BCE

    Siege of Agrementmon

    Siege of Agrementmon
    The siege at Agrementmon was a double encirclement where the Romans were stuck in the middle and after some time the Rome and Carthaginians went to fight each other and Rome won despite suffering 30,000 casualties to Cartahges 7,000 deaths.
  • 260 BCE

    First use of the Corvus the battle of Mylae.

    First use of the Corvus the battle of Mylae.
    The Corvus was an invention that let the Romans which is basically just a big bride with a spike on the bottom that let the Romans run abroad enemy ships so they can engage in melee combat. This led to the Romans winning their first naval battle against the sea-faring nation of Carthage and increased the overall chance of victory for the Romans.
  • 256 BCE

    The battle of Cape Ecnomus

    The battle of Cape Ecnomus
    This was potentially the largest naval battle in ancient history with both sides having about ~350 ships each. The Romans won the battle and it allowed the Romans to land in Africa and invade Carthage
  • 241 BCE

    Battle of the Aegates

    Battle of the Aegates
    The Carthaginians sent out a hastily built fleet of ships to protect their last settlements on the island of Sicily. The Carthaginians soon surrendered to get themselves out of debt and this caused a treaty to be sought out by the Romans that punished the Carthaginians severely.
  • 237 BCE

    Carthage enters spain

    Carthage enters spain
    Carthage enters Spain to pay off there debt's to the Romans
  • Period: 218 BCE to 201 BCE

    The Second Punic war

    The second Punic War stemmed from the overbearing restrictions put on Carthage after the first Punic War and almost led to the destruction of the Romans.
  • 217 BCE

    Hannibal crosses the Alps

    Hannibal crosses the Alps
    Hannibal Barca of Carthage crosses the Alps in 16 days to invade Rome from the land.
  • 216 BCE

    Battle of Cannae

    Battle of Cannae
    The Battle of Canne was the worst loss in the History of Rome's existence with over 60,000 deaths, casualties, and slaves taken according to the historians of the time which equated to about 20% of the Roman male population of fighting age dying or being captured at the end of the battle causing most of southern Italy to side with the Carthaginians.
  • Period: 213 BCE to 212 BCE

    Invasion of Syracuse

    The Romans tried to invade Syracuse previously and failed thanks to Archamedies being a Ccazy guy who may or may not have made a death ray and other inventions that prevented the Roman invasion for years. even during the siege, the Roman government ordered Archamedies to stay alive but a soldier murdered him after Archamedies said go away I'm doing math.
  • 209 BCE

    Siege of New Carthage

    Siege of New Carthage
    The battle of New Carthage was the turning point for the Romans in the second Punic War after Scipio the Younger led them to take the capital of the Iberian peninsula causing the loss of the Carthaginian silver mines and by extension, there backing for the war effort.
  • Period: 206 BCE to 220

    The Reign of the han dynasty

    The Han dynasty was founded by Liu Bang who became the emperor of China tell his death in ~195 B.C.E. They were the Second of the Five Chinese Dynasties. The Nation mostly followed Confucius's beliefs.
  • 203 BCE

    Battle of Utica

    Battle of Utica
    Now a Roman Consul Scipio led a siege against the city of Utica just a few days away from Carthage so the Carthaginians led a battle to protect against the capital of the empire with Syphax one of the leaders of the Numidian tribes while the other major leader helped Scipio and beat the Carthaginians and caused the recall of Hannibal to Carthage.
  • 202 BCE

    Battle of Zama and the end of the Second Punic War

    Battle of Zama and the end of the Second Punic War
    Scipio Fight Hannibal whichever side won the battle won the war. After Hannibal sent in the war elephants, the Roman line moved to let the elephants through the group. Then, the cavalry went to fight each other away from the infantry lines. An infantry battle ensued, and both sides became evenly matched. After some time, the Roman cavalry came back and caused the defeat of Hannibal and, by extension, the Nation of Carthage.
  • Period: 149 BCE to 146 BCE

    The Third Punic War

    It was a short war that led to the destruction of the city-state of Carthage and its people with the Roughly 50,000 survivors being sold into slavery.
  • Period: 130 BCE to 1453

    The Silk Road

    The Han Dynasty established the Silk Road a major trade route between China and the rest of the world. That outlasted the Han dynasty.
  • Period: 320 to 550

    The Gupta empire

    The Gupta Empire was the successor to the Mauryan Empire in India and also found/used the concept of zero and found Pi to four places being of of the most mathematically advanced societies. they are also the one of the first nations to be founded on Buhdist ideas