-202

This page relates to the year -202 Calendrier Julien proleptic.

Events

the Dynastie Han starts in China under Liu Bang (Lieou Pang) which puts an end to the Dynastie Qin (Ch' in) (fine in 220).
Liu Bang (-256/-195) established its capital with Chang' year (Xi' year in the Shaanxi). It distributes to its partisans of great land fields and names its sons and cousins kings of the parts far away from the empire.
the administration of the provinces is ensured by a made up very hierarchical structure civils servant recruited by examinations. This organization allows operations of great scale for the needs for defense or the economy. Thus two million inhabitants of over-populated areas in prey with the famine will be off-set towards the regions of north to emphasize them and to reinforce defenses of the empire.
the capacity, tyrannical, is pressed on a strong army and solids finances obtained by high taxes and the monopolies of salt and cast iron. The company is made up of a nobility enriched by the emergent industry which maintains slaves and harems and of peasants poor, sharecroppers or free. The formal Confucianisme of the senior officials is an atheism in fact, the humble ones practice the Taoïsme, later the Bouddhisme.

With Rome, Consul At of Ti. Claudius P.f. Nero, Mr. Servilius c.f. Pulex Geminus.

unfruitful Negotiations between Hannibal and Scipion the African. A minor incident breaks the truce: crossed of its back-country, Carthage is famished. A ship of Roman supply in perdition is hailed. The conflict starts again.
October 19th: Battle of Zama. Scipion the African, helped by Massinissa, demolishes Hannibal in Naraggara, close to Zama. Hannibal flees in Carthage.

Fine of the Second Punic War. Scipion dictates the conditions of peace: Carthage guard its territory of Africa, must return to Rome all the prisoners, give to him his fleet except for ten vessels, and all its elephants. It cannot declare the war in Africa, nor out of Africa without the approval of the Romans. Massinissa recovers its kingdom. The Carthaginians must pour 10 000 talents of money in 50 years and hundred hostages guarantees some in good faith.

Died in captivity in Rome of the king of the Western Numides Syphax overcome by Massinissa.

In Numidie, Massinissa encourages the sedentarisation of the nomads and the urbanization. It diffuses punic civilization and the Hellenic agrarian worships in the campaigns. Its capital is Cirta (Constantine). It sends its corn to Délos and Athens (one of its sons triumphs with the Panathénées).

the king séleucide Antiochos III begins the conquest of the Syria and the Palestine.

Zh-classical: 前二〇二年

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