Politics & PowerThe 3rd century BCE

Politics & Power in the 3rd century BCE

Every event in the Terralore archive tagged politics and power — dynasties, constitutions, revolutions and changes of regime, narrowed to the 3rd century BCE — 2 of them, drawn from 2 nations, running from 294 BCE to 206 BCE. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.

Events
2
Nations
2
Earliest
294 BCE
Latest
206 BCE

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

  1. c. 294–58 BCE — Asia:

    Cyprus

    Ptolemaic rule

    Following Alexander the Great's conquests, Cyprus passed to the Hellenistic Ptolemies of Egypt, who abolished the independent city-kingdoms and governed the island as a province until Rome took it in 58 BCE.

    Era: Neolithic Settlers, Greek City-Kingdoms and the Cult of Aphrodite

    Sources: Cyprus: History · Encyclopaedia Britannica

  2. 206 BCE — Asia:

    China

    Han dynasty consolidates the empire

    After the Qin collapse, the Han dynasty (206 BCE-220 CE) institutionalizes Confucian-trained bureaucracy and the civil service, giving China its enduring model of imperial government and the name of its majority people.

    Era: Imperial Unification: Qin and Han

    Sources: Han dynasty (206 BCE-220 CE), Teaching China with the Smithsonian · Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art, Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-220 A.D.) · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, China · Encyclopaedia Britannica