Culture & IdeasThe 2nd century BCE

Culture & Ideas in the 2nd century BCE

Every event in the Terralore archive tagged culture and ideas — art, language, science and learning, narrowed to the 2nd century BCE — 2 of them, drawn from 2 nations, all of it in 200 BCE. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.

Events
2
Nations
2
Earliest
200 BCE
Latest
200 BCE

Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.

  1. from c. 2nd century BCEAsia

    Sri Lanka

    Hydraulic civilisation and South Indian invasions

    Anuradhapura's kings build vast reservoir-and-channel systems to irrigate the dry plain, while recurrent invasions from South India culminate in the Chola conquest and the abandonment of the capital around 1017.

    Era: Anuradhapura and the Coming of Buddhism

    Sources: Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka · Encyclopædia Britannica, Sacred City of Anuradhapura · UNESCO World Heritage Centre

  2. 2nd century BCEAsia

    Turkmenistan

    Royal city of Nisa

    Old and New Nisa, near modern Ashgabat, served as an early capital and royal residence of the Parthian Empire, with palaces, temples and treasuries that fused Hellenistic and Iranian art.

    Era: Ancient Oases: Margiana and Parthian Nisa

    Sources: Parthian Fortresses of Nisa · UNESCO World Heritage Centre, Parthia · Encyclopædia Britannica