Random Article Summary #100

In 200 BC, Rome was using the pre-Julian Roman calendar to name years. At that time, people referred to it based on the consulship of Maximus and Cotta, though some also used the label year 554 Ab urbe condita. The name “200 BC” became common much later, beginning in the early medieval period. This change happened as the Anno Domini calendar system became the main way to label years in Europe. Antiochus III’s army keeps invading Coele Syria and Palestine. Meanwhile, the Seleucids also conquer Armenia. Philip V of Macedon defeats the Rhodians at Lade and then moves into Pergamum, looting and attacking cities in Caria. With Macedonian support, the Acarnanians invade Attica, prompting Athens to seek help from Attalus I, who quickly travels to Athens where he learns Roman ambassadors are also there. After the Romans issue an ultimatum to Philip not to attack any Greek state, Philip rejects it and the Romans declare war, starting the Second Macedonian War; Roman and Pergamese fleets then launch naval attacks along the Aegean, harassing Macedonian positions. Euthydemus I of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom dies. He is followed by his son, Demetrius I of Bactria, around this time. The city of Tiwanaku is founded as a village near Lake Titicaca in what is now Bolivia. In the Andes, the Early Horizon period ends as the Chavín culture disappears and the Nazca culture takes its place.