2nd century BC
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(3rd century BC - 2nd century BC - 1st century BC - other centuries)
(2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium AD)
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Events
- BC 168 Battle of Pydna -- Macedonian phalanx defeated by Romans
- BC 148 Rome conquers Macedonia
- BC 146 Rome destroys Carthage in the Third Punic War
- BC 146 Rome conquers Corinth
- about 120 BC -- opening of silk road
- Judas Maccabaeus restores the Temple in Jerusalem
- Theravada Buddhism is officially introduced to Sri Lanka by the Venerable Mahinda
Significant persons
- Flaccus, musical collaborator of Terence
- Plautus, Latin playwright
- Terence, Latin playwright
Inventions, discoveries, introductions
- Silk Road between Europe and Asia
- Hipparchus discovers precession of Earth's equinoxes and compiles first trigonometric tables
Decades and years
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