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Period: 600 BCE to 500
Unit 3
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500 BCE
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
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.
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
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
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 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 Barca of Carthage crosses the Alps in 16 days to invade Rome from the land. -
216 BCE
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
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
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
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