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( 2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium AD)

1 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 JerusalemThe Jerusalem Temple ( Hebrew: beit ha-mikdash was the center of Israelite and Jewish worship, primarily for the offering of sacrifices known as the korbanot''. It was located on Jerusalem's Temple Mount. According to the Bible, the First Temple was built
• TheravadaTheravada (Pali; Sanskrit: Sthaviravada) is one of the eighteen (or twenty) Nikya schools that formed early in the history of Buddhism. These developed in India during the century subsequent to the death of the Buddha. The name of the school means "Teachi BuddhismTian Tan Buddha statue in Hong Kong, remind followers to practice right living. Buddhism is a religion and philosophy based on the teachings of Siddhrtha Gautama ( Sanskrit; in Pli, Siddhattha Gotama , who lived between approximately 563 and 483 BCE. is officially introduced to Sri LankaThe Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka (known as Ceylon before 1972) is a tropical island nation off the southeast coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known in ancient times as Lanka Lankadweepa (meaning "Resplendent Land" in Sanskrit), Taprobane an by the Venerable Mahinda

2 Significant persons

• Flaccus, musical collaborator of Terence
• Plautus, Latin playwright
• Terence, Latin playwright

3 Inventions, discoveries, introductions

• Silk Road between Europe and Asia
• Hipparchus discovers precession of Earth's equinoxes and compiles first trigonometric tables

4 Decades and years

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