World Highlights in history 150 ~ 200 BC

Highlights in history 150 ~ 200 BC

Europe : Continental Celts push back Ancient Britons c. 200
Romans defeat Macedon at Cynoscephalae 197
Romans defeat Antiochus III at Magnesia 190
Port of Delos becomes centre of Aegean trade 167
Romans develop concrete as building material c. 200
Epicurean Philosophers expelled from Rome c. 173
First water clock in Rome c. 159
Bacchanalian orgies banned in Rome 186
Earliest known paved streets in Rome 179
Public libraries in Rome c. 160
January 1 becomes start of Roman year 153

Asia : Maccabean revolt in Judah 165 (-163)
Mahabharata, Indian epic, compiled c. 200
Han reunite China c. 202 (-AD 202)
Black bean sauce popular in China c. 200

Americas : Nazca Lines, huge drawings in Peruvian desert c. 200
Maya plastered temples at Tikal, Guatemala c. 200

Africa : Rosetta Stone inscribed in Egypt c. 197

A potter's art shows the value that China's Han dynasty set on horse and horsemanship.