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 BCEAsia

    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 BCEAsia

    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