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The 3rd century BC started the first day of 300 BC and ended the last day of 201 BC. It is considered part of the Classical era, epoch, or historical period.

The first few decades of the century are characterized by a balance of power between the Greek Hellenistic kingdoms in the east, and the great mercantile power of Carthage in the west. This balance is shattered when conflict arises between Carthage and the Roman Republic. In the following decades, the Carthaginian Empire is first humbled and then destroyed by the Romans in the first and second Punic wars. Following the Second Punic War, Rome becomes the most important power in the western Mediterranean. In the 3rd century BC the Xiong Nu/ were at the height of their power in Mongolia. Warring States period in China draws to a close, with Qin Shihuang conquering other nation-states and establishing the Qin dynasty, the first empire of China.

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The Pyramid of the Moon, one of several monuments built in Teotihuacán

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Significant persons

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Bust of Hannibal, the most prominent general of Carthage during the Second Punic War

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

Evidence

Much of what we know of this century comes down to us from the works of the Roman historian Polybius, whose main concern is the story of how Rome comes to dominate the known world.

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The term Hellenistic (derived from Ἕλλην Héllēn, the Greeks' traditional self-described ethnic name) was established by the German historian Johann Gustav Droysen to refer to the spreading of
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State Party  Tunisia
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Roman Republic was the phase of the ancient Roman civilization characterized by a republican form of government. The republican period began with the overthrow of the Monarchy c.
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Punics, (from Latin pūnicus meaning Phoenician) were a group of Western Semitic speaking peoples originating from Carthage in North Africa who traced their origins to a group of Phoenician and Cypriot settlers.
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Second Punic War (referred to as "The War Against Hannibal" by the Romans) lasted from 218 to 201 BC and involved combatants in the western and eastern Mediterranean.
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Mediterranean is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Europe, on the south by Africa, and on the east by Asia. It covers an approximate area of 2.
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The Xiongnu (Chinese: 匈奴; Pinyin: Xiōngnú; Wade-Giles: Hsiung-nu); were a nomadic people from Central Asia, generally based in present day Mongolia.
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"Монгол улсын төрийн дуулал"
National anthem of Mongolia
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The monarch known now as Qin Shi Huang (Chinese: 秦始皇; Pinyin: Qín Shǐ Huáng; Wade-Giles: Ch'in Shih-huang) (259 BCE – September 10, 210 BCE),[1]
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"Qin" can refer to: A state:
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Samnium (Oscan Safinim) was a region of the south central Apennines in Italy that was home to the Samnites, a group of Sabellic tribes that controlled the area from about 600 BC to about 290 BC.
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Samnite Wars were three wars between the early Roman Republic and the tribes of Samnium. The most formidable competitors of the Romans for supremacy in Italy were the Samnites, mountaineers who held the Apennines to the southeast of Latium.
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Gaul (Latin: Gallia) was the name given, in ancient times, to the region of Western Europe comprising present-day northern Italy, France, Belgium, western Switzerland and the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the west bank of
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Sabines (Latin Sabini - singular Sabinus) were an Italic tribe that lived in ancient Italy. Their language belonged to the Sabellic subgroup of Italic languages and shows some similarities to Oscan and Umbrian.
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Etruscan civilization is the modern English name given to the culture and way of life of a people of ancient Italy and Corsica whom the ancient Romans called Etrusci or Tusci.
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3rd century BC - 2nd century BC
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Samnium (Oscan Safinim) was a region of the south central Apennines in Italy that was home to the Samnites, a group of Sabellic tribes that controlled the area from about 600 BC to about 290 BC.
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Roman Republic was the phase of the ancient Roman civilization characterized by a republican form of government. The republican period began with the overthrow of the Monarchy c.
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Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus (died c. 280 BC) was one of the Roman consuls in 298 BC. He led the Roman army to victory against the Etruscans near Volaterrae. A member of the noble Roman family of Scipiones, he was the father of Lucius Cornelius Scipio and Gnaeus Cornelius
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Battle of Camerinum in 298 BC was the first battle of the Third Samnite War. In the battle, the Samnites defeated the Romans, who were commanded by Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus.
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